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2) Making the work-based safety net work better: forward-looking policies to help low-income families
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Examines eight areas of the safety net where families are falling through and describes how current policies and institutions could evolve to enhance the self-sufficiency of low-income families. Shows that the "work first" approach alone isn't working and suggests how the social welfare system might be modified to produce greater gains for vulnerable families.
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Essays, evaluations of employment creation and training programmes in the USA - examines trends and objectives of employment policies, 1962 to 1980; evaluates subsidy programmes for the unemployed, young workers and minority groups, the supported-work Experiment for the socially disadvantaged (drug abuses, exoffenders, welfare recipients), public service employment, and direct job creation; considers effect on income distribution and full employment;...
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Race, Self-employment, and Upward Mobility refutes conventional notions about entrepreneurship with a wealth of unimpeachable data. Timothy Bates finds that self-employment and upward mobility are open to those who are highly educated and skilled, often possessing significant personal financial resources. This is true among Asian Americans, African Americans, and everybody else, too. Asian immigrants are prominent in low-profit, high-risk inner city...
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This book presents the papers submitted to the workshop "Poverty in Latin America: Issues and New Responses," organized by the Kellogg Institute. The contributors argue that old models of social protection are in crisis and that without completely rejecting the past experiences, new paradigms might better address the problems of pervasive poverty and inequity that persist in and are often exacerbated by the new global economic environment.
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