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Homelessness, Poverty, and Unemployment

Author : Sanna J. Thompson
Publisher : Nova Science Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781613249253
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Homelessness, Poverty, and Unemployment written by Sanna J. Thompson and published by Nova Science Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the interconnections between homelessness, poverty and unemployment. Various populations are included, such as homeless youth and families, the elderly and individuals who have experienced traumatic events as these populations are most effected in terms of homelessness and poverty. Chapters are included that can be applied to a conceptual framework if social estrangement and include such domains as societal disaffiliation, psychological dysfunction, issues of human capital and the culture of homelessness. These domains are discussed in the first chapter and form the rationale and description for the various chapters included.

Paths To Homelessness

Author : Doug A Timmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100031281X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Paths To Homelessness written by Doug A Timmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major theme in this book is that people are homeless because of structural arrangements and trends that result in extreme impoverishment and a shortage of affordable housing in U.S. cities. It explains the economic and historical causes of homelessness with accounts of individuals and families.

Precarious Enterprise on the Margins

Author : Jessica Gerrard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137594837
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Precarious Enterprise on the Margins written by Jessica Gerrard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the contemporary conditions of marginal work within the context of persistent unemployment, poverty, and homelessness in wealthy nations. Drawing from research concerning three cities—Melbourne, San Francisco, and London—Jessica Gerrard offers a rich account of one of the most precarious informal forms of work: selling homeless street press (The Big Issue and Street Sheet). Combining analyses of sellers’ everyday work experiences with theorizations of marginality, working, and learning, Gerrard provides much-needed insight into contemporary forms of entrepreneurial and precarious work. This book demonstrates that those who are unemployed and seemingly unproductive are, in fact, highly productive. They value, desire, and seek practical work experience whilst also struggling to fulfill the basic needs that many of us take for granted.

Homeless

Author : Gerald Daly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135098689
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Homeless written by Gerald Daly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The causes of homelessness are disputed by both Right and Left. But, few would argue that life on the streets is anything other than dangerous and debilitating. Unemployment, deinstitutionalisation, abuse in the home are among the stories the homeless tell. Voluntary organisations point to the failure of emergency shelters and food banks, the cut-backs in social programmes and the severe shortage of affordable housing. On the international scale, the changing global system has placed new demands on the economies of Europe and north America which have impacted on resources, employment and even political will. This book is the first comprehensive international study of homelessness. The author argues that the category of the homeless must itself be broadened, to encompass those chronically without shelter to those in immediate risk of dispossession, if homelessness is to be tackled effectively (before and after it happens) by public policy, voluntary organisations and the individuals themselves.

Poverty: Public Crisis or Private Struggle?

Author : Erin L. McCoy
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502643537
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Poverty: Public Crisis or Private Struggle? written by Erin L. McCoy and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Americans struggle with poverty every day. The United States prides itself on being the land of opportunity, yet many disagree about why so many Americans have struggled to meet their basic needs. This book looks at the challenges surrounding poverty in America today, and explores the legal, political, social, and economic solutions, including food stamps, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, that have been proposed to remedy the problem. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of the many factors causing poverty and of how governments and communities can do their part to help those in need. Full-color images and sidebars support this compelling narrative.

Persistent Poverty

Author : Richard H. Ropers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persistent Poverty written by Richard H. Ropers and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once heralded as "the land of opportunity," America has become, for increasing numbers of her inhabitants, a nation of disappointment and hardship. In a land characterized by innumerable economic, environmental and social problems, poverty is escalating to the point where approximately one-third of the population is composed of the poor and the near poor. Persistent Poverty provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of one of America's most disturbing social problems.In a clear, uncompromising style, Richard H. Ropers, Ph.D., a noted authority on the plight of the poverty-stricken, unravels a skein of government inconsistencies in handling the mounting effects of poverty, homelessness, the welfare system, and the gradual polarization of our class system, resulting in the gradual erosion of the middle class. After examining various "blame-the-victim" and "blame the system" theories of inequality, Dr. Ropers asserts that such poverty results primarily from long-term economic, social, and political policies and is not necessarily derived from the supposed deviant behavior of the poor.With a staggering 70 million Americans living just above or below the poverty line, the author advises that urgent attention be paid to the structural roots of poverty in light of significant increases in the rate of crime, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, domestic violence, and unemployment. As an objective focus on the enormous scope of poverty, this groundbreaking work offers keen insights into the argument that despite substantial efforts to alleviate similar plights worldwide, the United States cannot provide sufficient care for her own impoverished citizens.Sociologists, educators, politicians, urbanologists, public officials, and concerned citizens will all benefit from this provocative and thoughtful appraisal.

Twenty Thousand Homeless Men

Author : Edwin Hardin Sutherland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Thousand Homeless Men written by Edwin Hardin Sutherland and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309038324
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.

Unemployment and Homelessness

Author : Great Britain. Community Relations Commission. Reference Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Unemployment and Homelessness written by Great Britain. Community Relations Commission. Reference Division and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report based on interview surveys of the incidence of unemployment and homelessness (housing needs) among youth minority groups in the UK - outlines findings on causes and consequences such as poverty, racial discrimination, low educational level, parental attitudes, disillusionment with employment services, etc., and includes recommendations. References and statistical tables.

Poverty and the Homeless

Author : Mary E. Williams
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and the Homeless written by Mary E. Williams and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and homelessness are sadly evident in America's cities-and even in some of the nation's rural areas. Contributors examine the root causes of poverty and what should be done to help the poor and the homeless.

One Thousand Homeless Men

Author : Alice Willard Solenberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book One Thousand Homeless Men written by Alice Willard Solenberger and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Homeless

Author : Ella Howard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208269
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Homeless written by Ella Howard and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers this question by tracing the history of skid rows from their rise in the late nineteenth century to their eradication in the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on New York's infamous Bowery, Homeless analyzes the efforts of politicians, charity administrators, social workers, urban planners, and social scientists as they grappled with the problem of homelessness. The development of the Bowery from a respectable entertainment district to the nation's most infamous skid row offers a lens through which to understand national trends of homelessness and the complex relationship between poverty and place. Maintained by cities across the country as a type of informal urban welfare, skid rows anchored the homeless to a specific neighborhood, offering inhabitants places to eat, drink, sleep, and find work while keeping them comfortably removed from the urban middle classes. This separation of the homeless from the core of city life fostered simplistic and often inaccurate understandings of their plight. Most efforts to assist them centered on reforming their behavior rather than addressing structural economic concerns. By midcentury, as city centers became more valuable, urban renewal projects and waves of gentrification destroyed skid rows and with them the public housing and social services they offered. With nowhere to go, the poor scattered across the urban landscape into public spaces, only to confront laws that effectively criminalized behavior associated with abject poverty. Richly detailed, Homeless lends insight into the meaning of homelessness and poverty in twentieth-century America and offers us a new perspective on the modern welfare system.

Permanent Supportive Housing

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309477042
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Permanent Supportive Housing written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.

Why Don't They Just Get a Job? Revised Edition

Author : Liane Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938248818
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Why Don't They Just Get a Job? Revised Edition written by Liane Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Visible Poor

Author : Joel Blau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199938083
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Visible Poor written by Joel Blau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking an in-depth look at the causes of homelessness in the United States, Joel Blau disproves the convenient myths that most homeless are crazy, drug addicts, or lazy misfits who brought their suffering upon themselves. He shows that the current crisis was an inevitable result of economic and political changes in recent decades, systematically reviewing the explanations offered by researchers, politicians and pundits, from the deinstitutionalization of mental patients in the 1960s to the gentrification of urban neighborhoods in the 1970s to the evisceration of federal spending on social welfare in the 1980s. Blau argues that current government policies at every level are mired in pointless headcounting and quick-fix solutions that only push the homeless out of sight without touching the underlying causes. He advocates social reforms ranging form a national standard for welfare benefits, a higher minimum wage, and establishment of a social sector for non-profit, affordable housing. A powerful contribution to public debate on homelessness, The Visible Poor must be read by concerned citizens as well as by policy-makers and advocates.

New York City in the Great Depression

Author : Dorothy Laager Miller
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738565972
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book New York City in the Great Depression written by Dorothy Laager Miller and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the stock market crash of 1929, the rising unemployment rate and widespread depression made it necessary for the city of New York to provide more commodious quarters for the city's homeless. New York City in the Great Depression: Sheltering the Homeless is a pictorial history of the shelters provided by the city during the Great Depression, including the Municipal Lodging House and its annexes in Manhattan, the farm colony at Camp LaGuardia, and the rehabilitation center at Hart Island. Archival photographs and documents depict the famous Great Depression breadlines, Mayor Jimmy Walker, Gov. Al Smith, and Tammany Hall, as well as the city's immigrants and tenement housing.

Where Have All the Homeless Gone?

Author : Anthony Marcus
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845450502
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Where Have All the Homeless Gone? written by Anthony Marcus and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a decade, from 1983 to 1993, homelessness was a major concern in the United States. In 1994, this public concern suddenly disappeared, without any significant reduction in the number of people without proper housing. By examining the making and unmaking of a homeless crisis, this book explores how public understandings of what constitutes a social crisis are shaped. Drawing on five years of ethnographic research in New York City with African Americans and Latinos living in poverty, Where Have All the Homeless Gone? reveals that the homeless "crisis" was driven as much by political misrepresentations of poverty, race, and social difference, as the housing, unemployment, and healthcare problems that caused homelessness and continue to plague American cities.