Social Policy category: 9249 books
If the War on Drugs is Over ...Now What ?
Security Without Easy Answers
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
It’s Time to Declare War on the War on Crime In 2011, the Global Commission on Drug Policy deemed the War on Drugs a failure. Initiated under Richard Nixon in 1971, the War on Drugs’ emphasis on harsh law enforcement and strong-arm police tactics spawned four decades of widespread violence, corruption,...
Food Fight
The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Our Chance to Right the Food System:Every five to seven years, Congress passes a little understood legislation called the Farm Bill. To a large extent, the Farm Bill writes the rules and sets the playing field for America’s contemporary food system, determining what we eat, how much it costs, and where...
Citizen Wealth
Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
America’s safety net is torn and tattered. Income inequality continues to grow—the gap between rich and poor has expanded fivefold in the last 25 years. For millions of working families achieving basic middle class comforts has begun to seem as distant a dream as winning the lottery. What is needed,...
by Bruce C. Rosetto
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A corporate lawyer’s manifesto on maintaining America’s economic superpower status and protecting our country’s future.
Most Americans want the same things. We may differ in our outlook on how to best achieve the things we want for our families, our community, our nation, and ourselves . . ....
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Students are graduating from college with an unprecedented amount of debt. The Quebec student movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement proves that large numbers of students are demanding explanations for why they are crippled with debt and subject to ever increasing tution.
Giroux shows...
Still Broken
Understanding the U.S. Health Care System
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
The debate over health care policy in the U. S. did not end when President Obama signed the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) on March 23, 2010. Since then, half the states have sued and federal judges have issued conflicting rulings about the law's constitutionality. In...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
Environmental quality has been a major public concern since the first Earth Day in 1970, yet the maze of environmental laws and regulations enacted since then has fostered huge government bureaucracies better known for waste and failure than for innovation and success.
Can we do better than...
by Cory Booker
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) shares the story of his father’s journey from poverty to middle-class prosperity, but says the bargain that helped his father and other workers achieve the American Dream is now broken. Sen. Booker reflects on the trends and practices contributing to stagnant wages in...
A Better Politics
How Government Can Make Us Happier
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
The aim of this book is to inspire a better politics: one that will enable future generations to be happier. Greater well-being and better health should be the goals, rather than wealth maximization. We need to value healthcare more than hedge funds, caring above careers, relationships more than real...
Financing Medicaid
Federalism and the Growth of America's Health Care Safety Net
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Conventional wisdom holds that programs for the poor are vulnerable to instability and retrenchment. Medicaid, however, has grown into the nation’s largest intergovernmental grant program, accounting for nearly half of all federal funding to state and local governments. Medicaid’s generous open-ended...
Scandalous Economics
Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Of all of the lies, fragile alliances, and predatory financial dealings that have been revealed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, we have yet to come to terms with the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current...
Oil to Cash
Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it spend the subsequent cash windfall? How can it protect against corruption? How can citizens truly benefit from national wealth? With many of the world's poorest and most fragile states suddenly joining the ranks of oil and...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
The WDR 2012: Gender Equality and Development will focus on the evolution of gender equality across the world in the context of the development process. The report will consider gender equality as a core development goal in itself, and will argue that gender equality matters for the pace of development....
by David Goldhill
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A Vintage Shorts Original Selection
Despite all attempts to make it otherwise, the American health care system remains arcane, bloated, inefficient, and damaging to our health. We pay high premiums, endure exorbitant out-of-pocket costs, see little to no information about treatment options, and...