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Backlash against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Social History
Michael B. Katz

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from Journal of Social History, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2006. The length of the article is 960 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Backlash against Welfare Mothers: Past and ...

Psychology Through Science Fiction

2 reviews
Michael B. Katz

Rand McNally & Co ,U.S., 1974

Good science fiction stories with psychology themes
This book was used as a textbook for an Introductory Psychology course I took in 1975. In spite of the fact that it was written as a textbook, it is an excellent read for short stories. Luckily, I happen to like the science fiction genre, and found almost all of the chapters (stories?) very well written. I can't remember discussing this book in class, although I'm sure it must have been included. ...

The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State

4 reviews
Michael B. Katz, 2002

Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!
With "The Price of Citizenship," Katz performs a much needed demystification of the ways in which the social welfare state and the poor have been attacked and continue to be attacked by social and fiscal conservatives under the guise of consumer choice and the chimerical promise of the marketplace as the best of all possible ways to administer "welfare." A work of breathtaking scope, Katz ...

The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare

1 review
Michael B. Katz

Pantheon, 1990

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In the United States in 1960 there was significant poverty. Twenty percent of the population had not seen a doctor and there were some areas in which people did not have enough to eat. Kennedy and Johnson after him instituted programs aimed at combating these problems. The involved the development of a medical system for the poor and other programs aimed at increasing the disposable income of ...

Fundamentals Of Real Estate Closings
Esq Paul B. Bergins, Esq Marie C. Flavin, ...

Lorman Education Services, 2006

This manual is designed to provide a basic overview of the closing process for professionals involved in closing real estate transactions. The manual includes a broad survey of closing-related information such as the due diligence process, closing preparation, typical checklists, closings documents, customs and procedures, title issues, tax certiorari issues and tax-free exchanges under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code. While the ...

Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Social History
Michael B. Katz

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from Journal of Social History, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2007. The length of the article is 1041 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties.(Book ...

Improving Poor People
Michael B. Katz

Princeton University Press, 1997

"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major historian of urban poverty realizes that the pain in these cities has its origins in the American past. To understand contemporary poverty, he looks particularly at an old attitude: because many nineteenth-century reformers traced extreme poverty to ...