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Egalitarians claim, for instance, that markets are unfair and that we must have redistributive policies to produce "social justice." This reasoning supposedly justifies the two-thirds of federal spending that simply robs Peter to pay Paul. We are stealing from each other. Browning's research and trenchant analysis show that: -Almost all U.S. citizens are harmed by the welfare state--even many of its apparent beneficiaries.-Welfare-state policies have...
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"The Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America is a unique reference work that provides readers with basic information about the history of social welfare in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The intent of the encyclopedia is to provide readers with information about how these three nations have dealt with social welfare issues, some similar across borders, others unique, as well as to describe important events, developments, and...
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"For thirty years, James R. Flynn has been the most respected critic of the notion that the IQ gap between black and white Americans is genetic in origin. In this controversial new book, Flynn turns his eye to politics, offering an alternative to the vision of American society popularized by Herrnstein and Murray in The bell curve. Flynn believes that only Social Democracy can realize the Jeffersonian ideal on which America was founded. He rearms...
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"Professors Leisering and Leibfried explore the relationship between welfare policies and individual life trajectories by way of a time-based (dynamic) analysis of poverty, combining quantitative and qualitative methods, and suggest the need for a radical rethinking of conventional theoretical and policy approaches. The core of this study is the empirical analysis of the life course of claimants of 'Social Assistance' in West and East Germany, although...
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