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Wealth and Welfare States

Is America a Laggard Or Leader?

By: Irwin Garfinkel,Lee Rainwater,Timothy Smeeding

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Wealth and Welfare States

Is America a Laggard Or Leader?

By: Irwin Garfinkel,Lee Rainwater,Timothy Smeeding

Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations have large welfare states, and identifying US welfare state leadership. From 1968 through 2006, the United States swung right politically and lost its lead in education and opportunity, failed to adopt universal health insurance and experienced the most rapid explosion of health care costs and economic inequality in the rich world. The American welfare state faces large challenges. Restoring its historical lead in education is the most important but requires investing large sums in education, beginning with universal pre-school and in complementary programs that aid children's development.

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265

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Oxford University Press

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019957930X

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9780199579303

Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality

By: Irwin Garfinkel,Robert H. Haveman

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Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality

By: Irwin Garfinkel,Robert H. Haveman

Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality describes the development and application of a way to measure economic status that will avoid some mistakes occurring in methods of measurement. The book reviews the concept of earnings capacity through different measures of economic status. The authors discuss the procedures used in estimating family revenue, sources of data, and inherent weaknesses in such measures. They consider the degree to which different groups classified by age, sex, race, or economic status use their earnings capacity. The authors compare income utilization of those who are considered poor using both measures of earning capacity and current income. Then, a common government and academic policy known as the target efficient — the proportion of total benefits allocated to poor families — is discussed. The authors cite two important factors: 1) estimates of target efficiency are affected by how poverty is defined and 2) target efficiency of transfer programs changes when the economic status method is used instead of the income method. The authors also examine the effects of labor market discrimination on the earning differences between two races. The text will prove useful for sociologists, psychologists, economists, and students of political science and population demographics.

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139

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Elsevier

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1483260526

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9781483260525

Assuring Child Support

An Extension of Social Security

By: Irwin Garfinkel

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Assuring Child Support

An Extension of Social Security

By: Irwin Garfinkel

In the United States, rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock childbirth are climbing so dramatically that over half of the next generation is likely to spend part of its childhood in single-mother families. As many as half of these families will live in poverty, caused in large measure by the failure of current government regulations to secure adequate child support from absent parents and to assure minimum support when parents cannot provide it. Assuring Child Support introduces the Child Support Assurance System, a remedy to this problem that is both feasible and affordable, a practical reform that is within the nation's grasp. "An extremely well-written and provocative book." —Eastern Economic Journal

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174

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610442385

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9781610442381

Making a Difference

Practice of Sociology

By: Irwin Deutscher

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Making a Difference

Practice of Sociology

By: Irwin Deutscher

Emphasis on measurement techniques can interfere with understanding how well particular social programs in their field work. In Making a Difference: The Practice of Socioloy, Irwin Deutscher links traditional sociological concerns with applied sociology in an effort to overcome this problem. He contributes to the debate over the extent to which health, educational, and social programs initiated by the Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations have been successful in intimate, human terms. Deutscher believes that the introduction of a sociological perspective can provide a positive element to interdisciplinary pursuits. This belief, as well as his fresh perspectives on both the strengths and limitations inherent in applied sociology, offer the field a revitalising lift. As such, this highly informative, thought-provoking volume will be of interest to sociologists and policy makers in health, education, crime, welfare, and housing.

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439

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Routledge

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1351290711

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9781351290715

Sentiments and Acts

By: Irwin Deutscher,Fred P. Pestello,H. F. Pestello

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Sentiments and Acts

By: Irwin Deutscher,Fred P. Pestello,H. F. Pestello

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276

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3112417569

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9783112417560

EBOOK: Science, Social Theory & Public Knowledge

By: Alan Irwin,Mike Michael

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EBOOK: Science, Social Theory & Public Knowledge

By: Alan Irwin,Mike Michael

How might social theory, public understanding of science and science policy best inform one another? What have been the key features of science-society relations in the modern world? How are we to re-think science-society relations in the context of globalization, hybridity and changing patterns of governance? This topical and unique book draws together the three key perspectives on science-society relations: public understanding of science, scientific and public governance, and social theory. The book presents a series of case studies (including the debates on genetically modified foods and the AIDS movement in the USA) to discuss critically the ways in which social theorists, social scientists, and science policy makers deal with science-society relations. ‘Science' and 'society' combine in many complex ways. Concepts such as citizenship, expertise, governance, democracy and the public need to be re-thought in the context of contemporary concerns with globalization and hybridity. A radical new approach is developed and the notion of ethno-epistemic assemblage is used to articulate a new series of questions for the theorization, empirical study and politics of science-society relations.

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192

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335225896

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9780335225897

The Felon

By: John Irwin

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The Felon

By: John Irwin

Since its first publication , 'The Felon' has become a classic of criminal sociology. Based on in-depth interviews and two years of participant observation, this book traces the career path of the felon - from early environment to crime to prison to parole - from the point of view of the offender. Engaging and readable, Irwins description of the life of felons, and his conclusions about the role of prisons in our society remain convincing and topical.

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Univ of California Press

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0520060164

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Book's by Irwin Garfinkel

Wealth and Welfare States

Wealth and Welfare States

Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality

Earnings Capacity, Poverty, and Inequality

Assuring Child Support

Assuring Child Support

Making a Difference

Making a Difference

Sentiments and Acts

Sentiments and Acts

EBOOK: Science, Social Theory & Public Knowledge

EBOOK: Science, Social Theory & Public Knowledge

The Felon

The Felon

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