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From:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Vol. 59, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWAR PLANNERS NATURALLY FOCUS MORE on destruction than reconstruction, more on achieving their military goals than dealing with the humanitarian crises that conflict can create. This has been true during the U.S. buildup...
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From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
Sole support mothers on social assistance in Ontario: barriers to employment and suggested solutions
Cet article fait le sommaire d'un recent rapport sur les meres seules qui beneficient de l'aide sociale en Ontario et enonce les difficultes que rencontrent ces femmes sur le marche du travail. Elle suggere une liste de... -
From:Socialist Lawyer (Issue 74)The Scottish Unemployed Workers Network (SUWN), which was established over five years ago, is a network of welfare and community organisations. Originally the SUWN kept the wider progressive movement informed of the...
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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:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 23, Issue 13)Byline: Peter York President Obamaas budget proposal for 2012 includes a $100-million idea that could revolutionize the way social programs are financed -- or could put a ticking time bomb next to the heart of some...
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From:Social Work (Vol. 57, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAlthough some research suggests that the relationship between Child Protective Services workers and their clients may influence client outcomes, little is known about the function of the relationship between welfare or...
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From:Management Science (Vol. 58, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed
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From:Social Work Research (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe authors examined how welfare recipiency is associated with savings outcomes in individual development accounts (IDAs), a structured savings program for low-income people. They investigated whether welfare recipients...
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From:Economic Inquiry (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination under oligopolistic competition with horizontal product differentiation. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for price...
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From:Policy & Practice (Vol. 69, Issue 3)Why the Burgeoning Interest in Social Impact Bonds? At the 2011 APHSA Spring Policy Forum, there was a great deal of interest in social impact bonds. The initiative--increasingly referred to as Pay For Success...
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From:Organization Science (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. This paper introduces a configurational approach to the study of multiple identities. Specifically, it examines how prosocial identity combines with collective and individualistic identities in conflicting and...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedAn expert roundtable conference on poverty and social exclusion, organised by the Finnish EU Presidency, ended in Tampere on 17 October. The event was attended by over 300 people (civil servants from member and...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 85, Issue 16) Peer-ReviewedCanada ranks 5th of 91 countries in terms of the well-being of its older population based on factors including income and health, a few notches below top-ranked Sweden but well above last-place Afghanistan.--Roger...
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From:Community Living (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCommunity care grants are intended to promote community care by helping people to return to or remain in the community. They provide a one-off cash payment to claimants getting a qualifying benefit (see below) to buy...
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From:Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy (Vol. 18, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The Medicare and Medicaid programs are not serving the needs of their target populations as well as they could. Democrats believe that Medicaid can be improved with more money and stricter federal regulation,...
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From:International Advances in Economic Research (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis note highlights one additional impact of immigration on the welfare of natives. This impact rises from an imperfect substitutability of goods produced in the countries and international trade. To our knowledge,...
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From:Community Living (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA call for vulnerable people to have access to a source of social care support outside the remit of local authorities has come from trustees of the Independent Living Fund (ILF). In their response to Caring for Our...
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From:Community Living (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn December 2007 a potentially revolutionary document was published by the Government. At first sight it appeared a modest publication--just six sheets of glossy paper--but a hint of its importance was to be found on...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-Reviewed"An inclusive Europe, a Europe for all." This is the philosophy of the European Parliament's Socialist (PES) group, which has just specified, in a memorandum, its position on social matters. The objective, explains the...
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From:Resources for Feminist Research (Vol. 32, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedThe Women's Court of Canada reconsiders that 2002 decision in Gosselin v. Quebec in which the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that section 29(a) of Quebec's Regulation Respecting Social Aid, which reduced that welfare...