Getting by : economic rights and legal protections for people with low income / Helen Hershkoff and Stephen Loffredo.
Over the last generation, inequality has risen, wages have fallen, and confidence that children will have a better future is at an all-time low. To be sure, a new generation is speaking up in support of universal health care, better public schools, affordable housing, and livable wages. But until th...
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Series: | Oxford monographs in international humanitarian and criminal law.
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505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- Cash assistance -- Work-related benefits and employment protections -- Food assistance -- Health -- Education -- Consumer rights and credit protection -- Housing -- Rights in public spaces -- Access to justice : enforcing rights and securing protection -- The right to vote. | |
520 | 8 | |a Over the last generation, inequality has risen, wages have fallen, and confidence that children will have a better future is at an all-time low. To be sure, a new generation is speaking up in support of universal health care, better public schools, affordable housing, and livable wages. But until the United States adopts and adheres to policies that ensure dignity and decency for all, people need to get by. This book addresses that imperative. 'Getting By' offers an integrated, critical account of the programs, rights, and legal protections that most directly affect poor and low-income people in the United States, whether they are unemployed, underemployed, or employed, and whether they work within the home or outside the home. | |
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