The Value of Return Home Interviews and Follow-Up Support When Young People Have Been Missing
by Andy Bagley
Poor People, Poor Places
Poverty is not uniformly distributed throughout Ireland. Some areas clearly experience much higher levels of poverty than others, whether urban public housing estates or peripheral rural areas. However, the spatial dimensions of poverty are, at best, only partially understood. This book brings together disparate sources of information on the geography of poverty and initiates a debate from which can emerge more effective policy responses. It should be of interest to students of geography and the...
The Relationship of Household Monetary Poverty and Multidimensional Child Deprivation (Young Lives Working Paper, Nr. 121)
by Renu Singh and Sudipa Sarkar
Unemployment Insurance in the Wake of the Recent Recession
by Congressional Budget Office
At a time when so many people are losing their jobs, this book shows the reader how to cope and even prosper with job loss. It covers such topics as what to expect emotionally and how to cope if you're fired or let go; setting up goals and action planning to achieve them; strategies for an effective job search; and others. The book is designed to motivate and inspire people to see job loss as an opportunity to learn, grow and achieve even greater professional success.
Originally published in 1976, this book highlights the problems faced by many inner-city working class communities in 1970s Britain, with particular reference to the Gairbraid housing clearance area of Maryhill, Glasgow. It examines the policy of local authority re-housing. Both the policy and practice of re-housing is carefully analysed and the efficacy of community action illustrated and discussed.
Homeless in a Mercedes
by Eva Javurek Arsenault and Richard Arsenault
Freedom from Poverty (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by Daniel P.L. Chong
Human rights advocacy in the West is changing. Before the turn of the century, access to goods such as food, housing, and health care-while essential to human survival-were deemed outside of the human rights sphere. Traditional human rights institutions focused on rights in the political arena that could be defended through legal systems. In Freedom from Poverty, Daniel P. L. Chong examines how today's nongovernmental organizations are modifying human rights practices and reshaping the political...
Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility
by Reija Lilja, etc., T. Santamak-Vaori, and G Standing
Known to the Police (Crime and Punishment in England, 1850-1922)
by Thomas Holmes