Old Assumptions New Realities

Author : Robert D. Plotnick
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610447212
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Assumptions, New Realities written by Robert D. Plotnick and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way Americans live and work has changed significantly since the creation of the Social Security Administration in 1935, but U.S. social welfare policy has failed to keep up with these changes. The model of the male breadwinner-led nuclear family has given way to diverse and often complex family structures, more women in the workplace, and nontraditional job arrangements. Old Assumptions, New Realities identifies the tensions between twentieth-century social policy and twenty-first-century realities for working Americans and offers promising new reforms for ensuring social and economic security. Old Assumptions, New Realities focuses on policy solutions for today's workers—particularly low-skilled workers and low-income families. Contributor Jacob Hacker makes strong and timely arguments for universal health insurance and universal 401(k) retirement accounts. Michael Stoll argues that job training and workforce development programs can mitigate the effects of declining wages caused by deindustrialization, technological changes, racial discrimination, and other forms of job displacement. Michael Sherraden maintains that wealth-building accounts for children—similar to state college savings plans—and universal and progressive savings accounts for workers can be invaluable strategies for all workers, including the poorest. Jody Heymann and Alison Earle underscore the potential for more extensive work-family policies to help the United States remain competitive in a globalized economy. Finally, Jodi Sandfort suggests that the United States can restructure the existing safety net via state-level reforms but only with a host of coordinated efforts, including better information to service providers, budget analyses, new funding sources, and oversight by intermediary service professionals. Old Assumptions, New Realities picks up where current policies leave off by examining what's not working, why, and how the safety net can be redesigned to work better. The book brings much-needed clarity to the process of creating viable policy solutions that benefit all working Americans. A West Coast Poverty Center Volume

Author : Charles Brecher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old assumptions, new realities written by Charles Brecher and published by . This book was released on 2006* with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gavin Adams
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310154618
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Big Shoes to Fill written by Gavin Adams and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting something is challenging. Think of it like building a plane over time and eventually testing it out when it's ready and you're ready. On the other hand, taking over something can feel impossible. Stepping into an organization feels more like jumping into a moving plane full of people and keeping it aloft while trying to improve the aircraft, maintain direction, and get to know your new co-pilots! The reality is that most of us inherit something, not start something: Teams, culture, processes, or perhaps entire organizations. As a long career with a single organization is increasingly a thing of the past, learning to step into a new leadership role is essential to leading well. Big Shoes to Fill helps leaders: Understand the tensions and problems associated with stepping into new leadership spaces, Create a learning environment that expedites trust, and Guide everyone experiencing the transition through the normative emotions of change.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Gunboats to Diplomacy written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Doris Barrell
Publisher : Dearborn Real Estate
ISBN 13 : 9780793161140
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reaching Out written by Doris Barrell and published by Dearborn Real Estate. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors, Doris Barrell and Mark Nash recount their own experiences in the real estate industry and share others in this practical guide for reaching a particular market segment. Whether targeting first-time homebuyers or empty nesters, all real estate professionals will find &I>eaching Out" an indispensable marketing tool.

Author : Katrin Muff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351285661
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collaboratory written by Katrin Muff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction is free to download here.This book is about empowering ordinary people to make a difference in the world. It explores the transformation that emerges when groups spread around the world working on similar issues discover synchronicities, often cross-pollinating, and collaborate rather than compete. A Collaboratory is a facilitated space where stakeholders meet to discuss burning societal issues. Each collaboratory is different and needs to be carefully designed to fit the context, ambition, purpose, stakeholders, culture, and space.Part 1 of the book sets the stage by explaining what a collaboratory is, where it emerges from, how it is defined and how it fits into the larger context of the social lab revolution that is happening all over the world.Part 2 of the book unpacks the many dimensions and considerations that contribute to the magic of a collaboratory experience. We offer nine unique insights and perspectives that need to be considered and form an integral part of a successful collaboratory.Part 3 offers eight inspiring examples of how a collaboratory could be applied. We look at applications in the educational field, within organizations, among institutions, and as movements.Part 4 offers a pragmatic outlook on how to get started if you want to use the Collaboratory in your own field of work. The book offers a narrative roadmap using a real-life example of a co-designed and co-created Collaboratory in Norway.Offering practical recommendations and benefits, and bringing together insights from a range of experienced academics, practitioners and facilitators, The Collaboratory is a handbook for experienced or aspiring practitioners in all fields of change: in society, in organizations of all kind and in the field of education.

Author : Marvin E. Levin
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323041450
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Levin and O'Neal's the Diabetic Foot written by Marvin E. Levin and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated, now in full color, this latest edition of Levin and O'Neal's The Diabetic Foot provides diagnostic and management information for the challenging problems faced by patients with diabetic foot problems. The book has a team care focus and offers tips and pearls in every chapter.

Author : Kevin J. Middlebrook
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 082297519X
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States and Latin America in the 1980s written by Kevin J. Middlebrook and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major political and economic events of the 1980s such as the international debt crisis, the 1982 Falklands War, the return to democratic rule in a number of countries, and the prolonged crisis in Central America, focused great attention on the U.S. and its dealings in Latin America. In this volume, experts from Latin America, the United States and Europe offer profound insights on the state of U.S.-Latin American relations, external debt and capital flows, trade relations, democracy, human rights, migration, and security during the 1980s.

Author : Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671696254
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Giants Learn To Dance written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-07-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is based upon a wide-ranging, five-year study of some of the world's most successful companies including Kodak, IBM, Ford and CBS. It shows how to be a success in the rapidly changing corporate market place.

Author : Melani Cammett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801470323
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare written by Melani Cammett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world, welfare states are under challenge—or were never developed extensively in the first place—while non-state actors increasingly provide public goods and basic welfare. In many parts of the Middle East and South Asia, sectarian organizations and political parties supply basic services to ordinary people more extensively and effectively than governments. In sub-Saharan Africa, families struggle to pay hospital fees, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) launch welfare programs as states cut subsidies and social programs. Likewise, in parts of Latin America, international and domestic NGOs and, increasingly, private firms are key suppliers of social welfare in both urban and rural communities. Even in the United States, where the welfare state is far more developed, secular NGOs and faith-based organizations are critical components of social safety nets. Despite official entitlements to public welfare, citizens in Russia face increasing out-of-pocket expenses as they are effectively compelled to seek social services through the private market In The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare, a multidisciplinary group of contributors use survey data analysis, spatial analysis, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic and archival research to explore the fundamental transformation of the relationship between states and citizens. The book highlights the political consequences of the non-state provision of social welfare, including the ramifications for equitable and sustainable access to social services, accountability for citizens, and state capacity. The authors do not assume that non-state providers will surpass the performance of weak, inefficient, or sometimes corrupt states but instead offer a systematic analysis of a wide spectrum of non-state actors in a variety of contexts around the world, including sectarian political parties, faith-based organizations, community-based organizations, family networks, informal brokers, and private firms.