Statistical Handbook On The Social Safety Net

Author : Fernando Padro
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical Handbook on the Social Safety Net written by Fernando Padro and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers students, researchers, grant writers, and the general adult population a basic comprehensive statistical overview of the status of the social safety net worldwide.

Author : The World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464812551
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of Social Safety Nets 2018 written by The World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The State of Social Safety Nets 2018 Report examines global trends in the social safety net/social assistance coverage, spending, and program performance based on the World Bank Atlas of Social Protection Indicators of Resilience and Equity (ASPIRE) updated database. The report documents the main social safety net programs that exist globally and their use to alleviate poverty and to build shared prosperity. The 2018 report expands on the 2015 edition, both in administrative and household survey data coverage. A distinct mark of this report is that, for the first time, it tells the story of what happens with SSN/SA programs spending and coverage over time, when the data allow us to do so. This 2018 edition also features two special themes †“ Social Assistance and Ageing, focusing on the role of old-age social pensions, and Adaptive Social Protection, focusing on what makes SSN systems/programs adaptive to various shocks.

Author : Martha R. Burt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Repairing the U.S. Social Safety Net written by Martha R. Burt and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rising poverty and unemployment rates triggered by the recession are stark reminders of the need for a secure social safety net. Such programs should provide economic security, protect vulnerable families, and promote equality--but the United States falls behind other countries in accomplishing these goals. In Repairing the U.S. Social Safety Net, Martha R. Burt and Demetra Smith Nightingale encourage strengthening the safety net and making a national commitment to end poverty.

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821335086
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical Handbook 1995 written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes data and tables on national accounts (GDP, growth rate, gross social product), balance of payments and foreign trade (exports and imports by commodity group), government finance (budget, revenue, expenditures), monetary statistics, agricultural production and yield, industry and energy production, supply and consumption, price and wage trends, and household incomes and expenditures.

Author : Robert Nisbet
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0124166458
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications written by Robert Nisbet and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications, Second Edition, is a comprehensive professional reference book that guides business analysts, scientists, engineers and researchers, both academic and industrial, through all stages of data analysis, model building and implementation. The handbook helps users discern technical and business problems, understand the strengths and weaknesses of modern data mining algorithms and employ the right statistical methods for practical application. This book is an ideal reference for users who want to address massive and complex datasets with novel statistical approaches and be able to objectively evaluate analyses and solutions. It has clear, intuitive explanations of the principles and tools for solving problems using modern analytic techniques and discusses their application to real problems in ways accessible and beneficial to practitioners across several areas—from science and engineering, to medicine, academia and commerce. Includes input by practitioners for practitioners Includes tutorials in numerous fields of study that provide step-by-step instruction on how to use supplied tools to build models Contains practical advice from successful real-world implementations Brings together, in a single resource, all the information a beginner needs to understand the tools and issues in data mining to build successful data mining solutions Features clear, intuitive explanations of novel analytical tools and techniques, and their practical applications

Author : Andrea Louise Campbell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614058X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trapped in America's Safety Net written by Andrea Louise Campbell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “remarkable” look at the flaws of the social safety net through one family’s personal tragedy and the Catch-22 financial disaster that followed (Deborah A. Stone, author of Policy Paradox). When Andrea Louise Campbell’s sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived—and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that’s where the good news ends. Marcella was left paralyzed from the chest down. This accident was much more than just a physical and emotional tragedy. Like so many Americans, neither Marcella nor her husband, Dave, who worked for a small business, had health insurance. On the day of the accident, she was on her way to class for the nursing program through which she hoped to secure one of the few remaining jobs in the area with the promise of employer-provided insurance. Instead, the accident plunged the young family into the tangled web of means-tested social assistance. As a social policy scholar, Campbell thought she knew a lot about means-tested assistance programs. What she quickly learned was that missing from most government manuals and scholarly analyses was an understanding of how these programs actually affect the lives of the people who depend on them. Using Marcella and Dave’s situation as a case in point, she reveals the programs’ shortcomings in this book. Because American safety net programs are designed for the poor, the couple first had to spend down their assets and drop their income to near-poverty level before qualifying for help. What’s more, to remain eligible, they’ll have to stay under these strictures for the rest of their lives, barred from doing many of the things middle-class families are encouraged to do: Save for retirement. Build an emergency fund. Take advantage of tax-free college savings. And, while Marcella and Dave’s story is tragic, the financial precariousness they endured even before the accident is all too common in America, where the prevalence of low-income work and unequal access to education have generated vast—and growing—economic inequality. The implementation of the ACA has cut the number of uninsured and underinsured and reduced some disparities in coverage, but continues to leave too many people open to tremendous risk. Behind the statistics and beyond the ideological battles are human beings whose lives are stunted by policies that purport to help them. In showing how and why this happens, Trapped in America’s Safety Net offers a way to change it. “An engaging narrative account of how social assistance programs shape real people’s lives. Campbell is authoritative and scholarly, yet warm and personal—a rare combination one sees in the likes of Oliver Sacks and Barbara Ehrenreich.” —Deborah A. Stone, author of Policy Paradox “Makes a compelling case for a stronger, more integrated, and ultimately more effective strategy for helping the millions of Americans who find themselves plummeting out of the insecure middle class.” —Jacob S. Hacker, New York Times–bestselling coauthor of Winner-Take-All Politics

Author : Philip Morris Hauser
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610446437
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Statistics in Use written by Philip Morris Hauser and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1975-12-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows why social statistics are important and how they are put to use in the interest of the public. Written by a sociologist who serves as Director of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago, the book illustrates the many applications social statistics have for governmental agencies at the federal, state, and local levels; for the business community; for labor unions; for educators and researchers; and for the general public. The author provides a description of the major bodies of social statistical information, including population; births, deaths, and health; marriage, divorce, and the family; education; the labor force; crime; consumption and the consumer; recreation; governments; and public opinion polls.

Author : Carolyn Sufrin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520963555
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jailcare written by Carolyn Sufrin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. Using her ethnographic fieldwork and clinical work as an ob-gyn in a women’s jail, Carolyn Sufrin explores how jail has, paradoxically, become a place where women can find care. Focusing on the experiences of incarcerated pregnant women as well as on the practices of the jail guards and health providers who care for them, Jailcare describes the contradictory ways that care and maternal identity emerge within a punitive space presumed to be devoid of care. Sufrin argues that jail is not simply a disciplinary institution that serves to punish. Rather, when understood in the context of the poverty, addiction, violence, and racial oppression that characterize these women’s lives and their reproduction, jail can become a safety net for women on the margins of society.

Author : Janet Currie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826993
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Safety Net written by Janet Currie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack. Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for a small and shrinking share of federal expenditures on poor families with children, but on the staples of today's American welfare system: Medicaid, Food Stamps, Head Start, WIC, and public housing. These programs, Currie maintains, form an effective, if largely invisible and haphazard safety net, and yet they are the very programs most vulnerable to political attack and misunderstanding. This book highlights both the importance and the fragility of this safety net, arguing that, while not perfect, it is essential to fighting poverty. Currie demonstrates how America's safety net is threatened by growing budget deficits and by an erroneous public belief that antipoverty programs for children do not work and are riddled with fraud. By unearthing new empirical data, Currie makes the case that social programs for families with children are actually remarkably effective. She takes her argument one step further by offering specific reforms--detailed in each chapter--for improving these programs even more. The book concludes with an overview of an integrated safety net that would fight poverty more effectively and prevent children from slipping through holes in the net. (For example, Currie recommends the implementation of a benefit "debit card" that would provide benefits with less administrative burden on the recipient.) A complement to books such as Barbara Ehrenreich's bestselling Nickel and Dimed, which document the personal struggles of the working poor, The Invisible Safety Net provides a big-picture look at the kind of programs and solutions that would help ease those struggles. Comprehensive and authoritative, it will prompt a major reexamination of the current thinking on improving the lives of needy Americans.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: