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The dangerous link between teen homelessness and HIV/AIDS has led activists to develop new forms of community involvement. Service providers are turning directly to youth for help, recruiting them to become messengers of HIV-prevention awareness and mentors of other at-risk young people. This video explores the how-to of designing peer programs by introducing viewers to five models for peer-based outreach groups. It covers the training of peer mentors,...
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Welfare reform has been on the public agenda in the United States for at least the past 2 1/2 decades. By 1992, major initiatives were underway in several states. The Politics of Welfare Reform examines welfare reform in six states that represent the most substantial changes in public assistance in several decades: Wisconsin, California, Michigan, New Jersey, Maryland, and Ohio. The case studies focus on the factors that motivated welfare reform,...
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Paul Niehaus, President and Co-founder of GiveDirectly, talks with Reason TV's Anthony Fisher about how his organization's new ideas in giving are changing the way people think about charity. The non-profit was founded in 2008 and is designed to help people living in extreme povery through cash transfers via mobile phones. The recipients use their mobile phones to receive the money, which they are allowed to spend as they wish. This philosophy varies...
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"Anchored by solid economic research and policy background, Welfare Transformed comes alive with revealing interviews of key members of the Clinton administration, directors and staff at welfare-to-work programs and community colleges, and-most important-welfare leavers themselves. Cherry carefully explains the factors (racial, social, economic, and generational) that spurred and shaped the reform, and moves past partisan rhetoric in his review of...
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Comparative social policy has long neglected welfare development in Asia. Not much is known about social welfare in the economically successful East Asian tigers (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan). They are late starters in social welfare but each has its own trajectory of welfare development. Despite the presence of extensive social welfare, they have shied away from Western-style welfare states. The presence of strong developmental states...
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"The English Poor Laws examines the nature and operation of the English poor law system from the early eighteenth century to its termination in 1930. The book traces its development from a localized measure of poor relief designed primarily for rural communities to an increasingly centralized system attempting to grapple with the urgent crises of urban poverty. The deterrent workhouse, medical care, education, assisted emigration, family maintenance,...
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"During the 1990s the United States undertook the greatest social policy reform since the Social Security Act of 1935. In Welfare Reform: Effects of a Decade of Change, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies, including nearly three dozen social experiments, to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation...
14) Broke(n)
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"Broke(n)" reveals the challenges everyday Americans face in a world of stagnant wages, uneven inflation, and unpredictable government aid. Set in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the film follows a diverse group of a dozen hardworking individuals chosen at random.
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For more than thirty years, students, scholars, and policymakers concerned with the alleviation of poverty have relied on successive editions of Sar A. Levitan's Programs in Aid of the Poor. Now, in conjunction with the eighth edition of that classic work, coauthors Garth Mangum, Stephen Mangum, and Andrew Sum offer a brief but comprehensive overview of the facts of poverty in the United States, its underlying causes, and the reasons for its persistence...
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[Publisher-supplied data] "This book makes an important addition to the literature on magic and spirits in the modern world. ... In comparison with other well-known anthropological works on magic and modernity, this stands out on account of its skill at evocation, at getting inside people and events and not merely using them as examples or 'case studies.'"--Michael Taussig, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University Persecuted as evil during colonial...
17) Lost Vegas
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Every year millions flock to Las Vegas trying to fulfill a dream and win big, but outside and even underground is another world that couldn't be more different. Lisa Ling investigates the dark, shocking and sometimes dangerous underbelly of Sin City that few get to see.
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Hope is not what most Americans associate with the nation's inner cities, but this program, with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith, offers a rare series of powerful and encouraging portraits of urban heroes who are reviving once-dying neighborhoods. Filmed in Washington, D.C., the program offers an almost unknown face of the inner city--one that contrasts sharply with the typical images of crime, drugs, and violence seen on the nightly...
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Out in the streets of more than 100 countries, The Salvation Army is at war. Its zealous officers, soldiers, and adherents fight daily battles to minister both spiritually and physically to homeless addicts and the desperately poor-people whose lives have hit rock bottom. Filmed at The Salvation Army Gateway, a shelter and drop-in center in Toronto, this powerful program spotlights the frontline workers and the street people they serve, who together...
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