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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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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...
5) 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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[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...
7) 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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The general assumption that social policy should be utilitarian--that society should be organized to yield the greatest level of welfare--leads inexorably to increased government interventions. Historically, however, the science of economics has advocated limits to these interventions for utilitarian reasons and because of the assumption that people know what is best for themselves. But more recently, behavioral economics has focused on biases and...
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The idea of a basic guaranteed income is getting a trial run in a Canadian province for three years. Four thousand randomly selected Ontario residents will get thousands of dollars a year, and in exchange, they give up some social supports, while the government gets back some money. Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks with some participants, as well as some skeptics.
13) Dignity Harbor
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Dignity Harbor chronicles a group of homeless people living in an encampment along the Mississippi River in downtown St. Louis. In the shadow of the Arch, several makeshift communities - Hopeville, Sparta, and Dignity Harbor - are erected when work begins to fill the tunnels under Tucker Boulevard, displacing many homeless. In Dignity Harbor, the self-appointed mayor promises a safe environment - women are especially to be welcomed - and the residents...
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With more American families being increasingly forced into homelessness, this book aims to raise the standard and scope of services provided to families without homes through practices that are both strengths-based and culturally competent. All major aspects of this important topic are analyzed, with recommendations for what is needed to improve current programs or establish new ones. Chapters set out the particular needs of parents, children, and...
18) Still Human
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This documentary opens the viewer's eyes to one of the world's most substantial and devastating social issues: poverty and homelessness. Through a socio-economic comparison of Mumbai and Los Angeles, we learn how these complex environments affect their homeless populations.
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