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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Welfare Programs"”.
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Union - Management Health and Welfare Programs Since 1945
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Private Welfare Agencies and Their Role in Government-Sponsored Welfare Programs: The Case of The War on Poverty in Chicago
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Can Education Reduce Welfare Rolls?: A Study of California's GAIN Program
Welfare programs often attempt to reduce their welfare rolls by pushing recipients into immediate employment, while others provide education and training to people before expecting them to re-enter the job market. In some states, such as California, counties are allowed flexibility in the …
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A study of the association between commitment to the work ethic and social welfare program choices
… poor, and attitudes toward a variety of social welfare programs (both individualistically and structurally oriented). Of the 230 returned questionnaires (out of a sample of 427), 202 were useable. Composite variables were constructed from Likert-type rating scales to measure several key …
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Hope and Struggle in the Policed Inner-City: Black Criminalization and Racial Capitalism in Philadelphia, 1914-1978
… City Council financially divested from social welfare programs, invested in the police department, and promoted a tough on crime policing program that generated wealth for Philadelphia’s tax base and attempted to halt white flight from the city. My evidence consists of newspapers, archived news …
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The Politics of Bread: State Power, Food Subsidies and Neoliberalization in Hashemite Jordan
… to great lengths to maintain this and similar welfare programs, even extending them during the tumult of the so-called ‘Arab Spring.’ This dissertation seeks to answer why. Through the lens of bread, I suggest a new approach to understanding state power, not as the straightforward product of a …
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Social Security under Decentralized Authoritarianism: Politics of The Public Pension Program in China
<p>Welfare provisions are commonly regarded as an intrinsic product of democracy. Why do authoritarian rulers provide welfare programs to the people? How do authoritarian rulers promote welfare development under decentralized authoritarianism? This dissertation investigates these theoretical …
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The New Orleans Female Orphan Society: Labor, Education, and Americanization, 1817-1833
… and Philadelphia. Recognizing the lack of social welfare programs and assistance given to the poor, a group of women established the Female Orphan Society. From its creation, the Female Orphan Society worked in providing aid to indigent mothers and their children through providing religious, …
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Essays on Health and Medical Care
… outcomes, especially among low-income families. Welfare programs such as Medicaid and cash assistance are conventionally implemented to assist low-income families. The effectiveness of these efforts to improve health outcomes and medical utilization among low-income families is not entirely …
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Cultivating Class: Tokyo Imperial University and the Rise of a Middle-Class Society in Modern Japan
… flowering of modern education, consumer culture, welfare programs, amateur sports, health culture, and employment practices,. This dissertation highlights a range of middle-class practices promoted by numerous Tōdai institutions--the Red Gate Student Consumer Cooperative, Student Office welfare …
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Caring Work: Opening a Space of Possibility for Exploring Transnational Feminist Solidarity Between Privileged and Marginalized Women
… the margin of society. Structural adjustment programs (SAPs), which impose state budget cuts on healthcare and welfare programs, particularly have kept poor women and women of color in poverty and generally, have exploited women's labor. However, in this age of neoliberalism, women's …
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The NIT: Proposed Federal Schemes Versus Existing State Tax-Credit Plans
… one more program to be added to the roster of welfare programs presently in effect. Conversely, other authorities view the NIT approach as a panacea for the legislative and poverty problems prevalent today. Whatever the eventual outcome may be, the negative income tax appears to be one valid …
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Poverty, welfare, and unemployment in Wythe County, Virginia
… as they relate to the incidence of poverty, to welfare, and to unemployment levels and causes. A brief review of our national economic heritage and philosophy with emphasis upon attitudes was necessary to establish historical perspective. Various types of employment and unemployment were defined …
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Race to the Bottom or Move to the Middle? Globalization and Welfare Regime Transformation in the Developing World
… demonstrate that the variations of social welfare systems in the developing world are rooted in the conflicting dynamics of industrialization and globalization. Industrialization in the developing world has an expansionary effect on welfare expenditures as it entails risks that fuel the …
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Structural Adjustment and the Dismantling of Egypt's Etatist System
… development strategy and social welfare programs. The key hypothesis guiding this study is that the application of structural adjustment programs has been a factor powerfully transforming the etatist systems of the Nasser and Sadat periods. The study shows how this particular …
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Essays in Public and Behavioral Economics
… affect poverty and the design of social welfare programs for low-income households. The first chapter, "Eviction as Bargaining Failure: Hostility and Misperceptions in the Rental Housing Market" (co-authored with Evan Soltas), studies the causes of evictions from rental housing and the …
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Comparing Teenage Pregnancy Rates and Teenage Birth Rates Between States that Do and Do Not Mandate Sex or STD/HIV Education Programs
… mothers and infants and increased spending on welfare programs. The purpose of the study is to determine if there is a relationship between teenage pregnancy rates and teenage birth rates and the type of sex education program taught in public high schools. The research questions were (1) Is …
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Prairie Paupers: North Dakota Poor Farms, 1879-1973
… in the state until the 1940s. New Deal programs changed the nature of poor relief from a local to a federal responsibility during the Great Depression. Poor farms were discontinued as a result of the rise of the federal welfare state.</p> <p>Chapters Four through Seventeen contain the …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
… York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become more stingy and punitive, particularly since the passage of welfare reform in 1996. On the surface, this does not seem to be the case for the food stamp program or for emergency food …
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Asset Limits, Savings Behavior, and Welfare: Evidence from the SIPP and a Life-Cycle Model
… paper examines how asset limits in means-tested welfare programs shape household saving behavior. I exploit cross-state variation in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) asset limits by linking these limits to individual-level data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation …
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