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The goals of this section are to provide a broad descriptive analysis of the history, growth, and current issues facing the shared housing movement, to consider both the urban and rural environments as contexts for shared housing programs, and to offer an overview of shared housing research.

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Social Security distributes cash benefits to retired and disabled workers in accordance with past taxable earnings, and the book describes and evaluates the procedures for determining each worker's earnings-related benefit base. Primary worker payments are determined by applying a cohort-specific benefit formula to the benefit base of each worker.

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Such key considerations as the adequacy of protection, the financing problems, issues of fairness, the response to disability, and the health care needs of the elderly are particularly focused on--the authors' are sensitive to the social welfare nature of the programs.

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Offers recommendations for improving Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in socially responsible ways that serve to relieve some of the stress on the middle class and promote upward mobility. Synthesizing data and explaining economic concepts in layman's terms, the authors expose myths about how entitlement programs actually work.

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By providing a global perspective on social security, Dixon enables scholars, students, and social security administrators to place national and perhaps regional social security policy debates into their larger, regional and global settings.

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By providing a global perspective on social security, Dixon enables scholars, students, and social security administrators to place national and perhaps regional social security policy debates into their larger, regional and global settings.

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This text demonstrates how the intimate domains of private life, child-rearing and family, have been permeated by the political strategies advanced by foundations, which have broken down or diminished the opposition between public and private during the 20th century.

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This volume reports the results of a large-scale survey of families who adopted children with "special needs": older children, minority children, handicapped children, or sibling groups. The study shifts the focus of inquiry to intact families, assessing aspects of adoptive family life.

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At the beginning of the 21st century, there is a growing global consciousness of the issues affecting children and a commitment to address them. This work responds to the need for a comprehensive collection of international statistical material on children.

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This study, done over a four-year period, focuses on children who are older than infants when placed for adoption, children who are members of a sibling group, and children with physical, emotional, or behavioral difficulties.

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Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States.

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Focuses on the staples of American welfare system such as Medicaid, Food Stamps, Head Start, WIC, and public housing. This book maintains that these programs form an effective, if largely invisible and haphazard safety net, and yet they are the very programs most vulnerable to political attack and misunderstanding.

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Marketization offers the promise of reduced dependency on the state, reduced public expenditure and thus lower taxes, enhanced competitiveness internationally, more efficient delivery of social security services, and other advantages--but whether these promises would be kept seems to depend on a variety of factors.

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Providing adequate, accessible, and affordable housing is a major problem affecting many African countries.

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Undoubtedly, this collection of essays on key states, charting the rise and fall of state welfare, examines a monumental 20th century event and will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students involved with social welfare issues, as well as policy makers and concerned citizens.

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A one-volume analysis and synthesis of four major aspects of the current housing crisis (financing, affordability, inadequate supply of lower-priced housing, discrimination, and displacement) providing for each area discussed background, review of alternatives and concrete proposals.

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Based on the presupposition that shelter is a basic human right in the world's richest, most advanced nation, the authors of these essays look more closely than others have yet done at the causes of the current low-income housing crisis and homelessness.

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Based on the presupposition that shelter is a basic human right in the world's richest, most advanced nation, the authors of these essays look more closely than others have yet done at the causes of the current low-income housing crisis and homelessness.

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This book crosses international boundaries to explore contemporary child and family welfare practices. It traces the major changes and challenges in Western practice over the past decade, looks at evidence-informed practice, and focuses on the generic phases of the statutory process, including assessing risk and finding safe solutions.

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