Author: Craig Marshall Harris
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Category : Social service, Rural
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Mark Edward Braun
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739101995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Social Change and the Empowerment of the Poor provides insight into the local impact of a variety of federal programs funded by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Specifically, Mark Edward Braun's dramatic social history examines seven anti-poverty programs--Community Action Programs (CAPs)--started in Milwaukee in the 1960s. Braun's research confirms that, unlike most other cities, Milwaukee's deteriorating urban neighborhoods were transformed by these initiatives. CAPs successfully empowered Milwaukee's poor, made public officials and institutions more accountable to the needs of the poor, reformed punitive legislation, created new community-based organizations, expanded social services for people of color, and challenged elites. This book provides an excellent framework for future studies that will add to the current scholarly interest in the long-term results of CAPs. Braun simultaneously dispels the myth that CAPs were a categorical failure, and brings a provocative new voice to urban studies, social activism, policy studies and political science.

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Category : Federal aid to community development
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Audit Bureau
Publisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
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Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Wisconsin. Division of Public Assistance
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Category : Community development corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Category : Federal aid to community development
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309452961
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author: Robert Neal Smith
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Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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