Out of touch, out of bounds: how social networks shape the labor market Radii of women on welfare in San Francisco

Article Abstract:

This study suggests that women on welfare are limited in their job search by their lack of education, transportation, and involvement in social networks outside their neighborhoods. The author suggests this study has important policy implications for welfare-to-work programs.

Statistical Data Included, Research, Employment, Welfare recipients, Job applicants, Workfare programs

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From the "Walk for Adequate Welfare" to the "March for Our Lives": Welfare Rights Organizing in the 1960's and 1990's

Article Abstract:

The author compares welfare right movements of the 1960's to those of the 1990's. Topics include multiracial organizing, human rights and the working poor, and labor movement alliances.

Evaluation, History, Poverty, Social movements, Welfare rights movement

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John Robert Borchert: October 24, 1918 - March 30, 2001

Article Abstract:

The life of John Robert Borchert is discussed, focusing on his contributions in urban geography. John Robert Borchert died on March 30, 2001.

Obituary, Geographers, Borchert, John Robert

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