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From:Policy Studies Journal (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRecent studies of policy and policy actors in China have made use of the policy entrepreneur concept that has been popular in studies of policy in North America and Europe. These approaches have understood the concept...
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From:Journal of Developing Areas (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEstimates show only 56 percent of poor households who are eligible for benefits under the Program of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) in Jamaica actually applied to the program. Also, application rate...
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From:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Reformers face a choice of rhetoric when seeking to rally support. Drawing attention to all that is defective in the status quo, they can trumpet the novelty of their proposals. Or they can seek to...
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From:Australian Journal of Social Issues (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt is not always a bad thing for a degree of social coercion to be exercised on the young -- indeed modern industrial society is the only one in which the post-puberty young are not subjected to enormous disciplinary...
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From:Public Finance Review (Vol. 25, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedOligopolistic industries generally produce less than is socially desirable. As a result, the use of production subsidies is often suggested as a means of raising production toward the efficient level in imperfectly...
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From:Affilia Journal of Women and Social Work (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDrawing on the results of a national study and a series of focus groups, this article argues that most women, including welfare recipients, package income, that is, combine resources from men, the market, and the state...
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From:Canadian Review of Social Policy (Vol. 79) Peer-ReviewedThe number of people accessing benefits on social assistance in Ontario is not of minor importance, with almost a million (964,182) beneficiaries province-wide in 2016. An important factor in explaining the recent...
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From:Sister Namibia (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMost people have dreams of what they could do if they had enough money. However, obtaining a loan from a bank is very difficult if you are poor. Banks only give loans to people if they have proof that the lenders can...
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From:Regulation (Vol. 43, Issue 1)Over the past few decades, retirement savings has shifted from a defined-benefit model to a defined-contribution model. If we look at the major social welfare programs operated by the federal government, we see a very...
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From:Review of Constitutional Studies (Vol. 2, Issue 1)While poverty is not a ground of discrimination expressly enumerated under section 15 of the Charter, it is a condition shared by several of the groups specified in that section. The author argues that the Charter's...
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From:Health Reports (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground Following the 2016 opioid overdose emergency declaration in British Columbia (B.C.), provincial stakeholders collaborated to link data that resulted in the B.C. Provincial Overdose Cohort. This database...
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From:Policy & Practice of Public Human Services (Vol. 59, Issue 4)It would seem somehow hollow to write an article for this issue of POLICY & PRACTICE without commenting on the events of September 11, and the courage and resilience of the American people. So before I begin with any...
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From:Policy & Practice of Public Human Services (Vol. 60, Issue 2)The Advocate The state launched a $500,000 multipronged campaign in May to get people connected with programs designed to help them get-and stay off-welfare Billboards will be posted promoting the variety of services...
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From:Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDiscretion used by state governments in implementing social welfare programs reveals an ideology predisposed to generosity in administering those programs. Rather than using the programs as a politically strategic issue,...
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From:Family MattersIn the United Kingdom the sharp shrinkage of the job market for semi-skilled and unskilled workers has been the catalyst for the rising welfare rolls. And once on the rolls for what appears like an indefinite period...
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From:Contemporary Drug Problems (Vol. 30, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper reviews the history of the drug addiction and alcoholism (DA&A) program within Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and the controversies that dogged the years before its termination in 1996. The DA&A program...
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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 123, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPublic-service employment programs play an important role in many OECD countries; they may be the only effective way to aid those among the long-term unemployed who are less skilled and less well educated The...
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From:Publius (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDoes welfare reform provide "A Better Chance" (ABC) for Delaware's welfare recipients? Not in terms of meeting the program's objectives. The employment and earnings impacts are modest. ABC had relatively little impact on...
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From:Social Justice (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe neoliberal approach undertaken by the Mexican government to improve the country's economic condition has greatly weakened the country's public health and educational system. The dismal plight of these public agencies...
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From:Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAn investigation into Edmund Phelps' theory of distortionary taxes looks into the welfare benefits of inflation reduction. To this end, two types of models which characterize the US economy are simulated. The first...