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Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early 20th-century critics of modernity saw the region as a remnant of frontier life, a reflection of simpler times that should be preserved and protected.

In keinem anderen Land Lateinamerikas haben so wenige Frauen Zugang zu medizinischen Einrichtungen wie in Guatemala. Die staatliche Gesundheitsversorgung reicht längst nicht aus. Private Krankenhäuser sind meist zu teuer. Schwangerschaften sind deshalb mit extremen Risiken verbunden. Vielen Schwangeren bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als sich auf das Wissen der Heiler der Mayamedizin und der Comadronas, der traditionellen Geburtshelferinnen, zu verlassen.

Wenn im Sommer in Deutschland die sechste Fußballweltmeisterschaft der Frauen ausgetragen wird, dann werden auch viele Mädchen...

Have you ever wondered how much that guy with the cardboard sign makes? One economics student did and he decided to find out. During the summer of his senior year at college, while earning a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, David P. Spears spent 80 hours undercover as a panhandler. Systematically recording every transaction at the exit ramp, Spears captured a rarely seen picture of how modern urban charity works.

Many believe that the War on Poverty, launched by President Johnson in 1964, ended in failure. In 2010, the official poverty rate was 15 percent, almost as high as when the War on Poverty was declared. Historical and contemporary accounts often portray the War on Poverty as a costly experiment that created doubts about the ability of public policies to address complex social problems. Legacies of the War on Poverty, drawing from fifty years of empirical evidence, documents that this popular view is too negative.

White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the nation’s diverse cultural reality, a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority of the population, and with a Black president in the White House, whites are growing anxious.

Can money buy high-quality education? Studies find only a weak relationship between public school funding and educational outcomes. In The Money Myth, W. Norton Grubb proposes a powerful paradigm shift in the way we think about why some schools thrive and others fail. The greatest inequalities in America's schools lie in factors other than fiscal support. Fundamental differences in resources other than money explain the deepening divide in the success of our nation's schoolchildren.

Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. Unlike his previous books, however, Ordinary Resurrections is almost entirely narrative and takes us into the fascinating details of daily life as he has lived it with young children who befriended him over the course of several years. Like Amazing Grace, this book describes the children of New York's South Bronx, but it is a markedly different book in mood and vantage point.

Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than in our current mainstream political discourse, in which the politics of economic inequality are rarely discussed.

Rischi di lockdown: Emergenza Covid: la norma c'è, i test rapidi no. Il pasticcio dei rientri dall'estero, di Alessandra Ziniti; "L'Italia sta peggiorando". Quasi mille i focolai ma l'indice Rt torna sotto 1, di Elena Dusi; Italia come a dicembre: "Agire o fra due mesi tornerà il lockdown", di Luca Fraioli; Un solo contagio in classe e sarà quarantena per tutti, di Michele Bocci; Impreparati a tutto, di Chiara Saraceno.

Ripartenze e proteste: Riapertura delle Regioni. No al passaporto sanitario, ma controlli più rigidi, di Giovanna Vitale; Conte e l'addio alla prudenza: "Il blocco non ha più senso", di Annalisa Cuzzocrea; "È il mio programma": Conte cerca uno scudo per non restare solo, di Claudio Tito; Santelli: "In Calabria l'unico rischio è ingrassare. Invito Bonaccini e Fontana a casa mia", di Giuseppe Smorto; Ripartenze e proteste per il caso Lombardia: "Sbagliato riaprire tutto", di Annalisa Cuzzocrea; Tamponi e test ai turisti. Nelle Regioni controlli fai da te, di Tommaso Ciriaco.

L'Italia, la rabbia e la ripartenza: Record di nuovi poveri e tanta rabbia nell'Italia che non riesce a ripartire, di Paolo Griseri, Caterina Pasolini, Mariella Tanzarella; Il ministro dell'Economia Gualtieri: "Capisco la rabbia, il decreto Rilancio aiuterà tutti", di Alberto D'Argenio; Alle radici della rabbi,a di Concita De Gregorio; Fase 2, Conte accelera: "Ora la semplificazione. E torneremo a correre", di Tommaso Ciriaco e Claudio Tito; Poveri, soli, arrabbiati: "Quattro mesi per salvare il paese dal baratro", di Paolo Griseri.

Ripartenza, rischi e paure: Paura di ripartire di Maria Novella De Luca; "Aiutavamo gli altri ma ora i poveri siamo diventati noi" di Massimo Calandri e Erica Manna; Il contagio della povertà di Chiara Saraceno; Milano, la città non si fida e i tram restano vuoti "Ancora troppi rischi" di Brunella Giovara; Mercato e caffè al bar. Ritorno a Codogno dove tutto cominciò di Carlo Annovazzi; Fuori c'è un mondo che non è cambiato. Io per ora non esco: ho paura di noi di Natalia Aspesi.

"Rep: Digest" ti offre ogni settima due appuntamenti con l'informazione di Repubblica. Due raccolte di articoli in formato audio che raccontano e analizzano i temi e le notizie della settimana. Storie e diari dalla quarantena: Lui e lei rimasti senza calcio. Il racconto di Stefano Benni di Stefano Benni; Racconto la storia e le fiabe italiane ai nipotini su Skype di Paolo Rumiz; Ripenso al Papa che mi disse: "Riposeremo dopo" di Paolo Rumiz; Il pianeta si salva con parole nuove di Michele Neri.

Dem globalen Mittelstand droht der Kollaps - es sei denn, die Gesellschaft lässt sich auf eine neue Richtung ein. Wird das aktuelle Wirtschaftssystem, das den Superreichen einen stetigen Einkommenszuwachs garantiert, nicht verbessert, wird es eine unüberbrückbare Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich geben. Der Unternehmer Huschmand Sabet fordert in diesem Werk eine führende Rolle der Weltreligionen als Instanzen der Wertevermittlung, sowie einen globalen Marshall-Plan, der das Konzept einer ökosozialen Marktwirtschaft einläuten soll.

Kinderarmut in der Kita ist ein Thema, das viel Fingerspitzengefühl erfordert. Vielleicht sind Sie sich nicht ganz sicher, ob ein Kind Unterstützung benötigt? Oder Sie wissen von einem Fall in Ihrer Einrichtung, aber haben Berührungsängste und Kommunikationsschwierigkeiten. Dann ist dieses kleine Hörbuch ein idealer Türöffner. Es enthält wichtige Informationen, Tipps und Empfehlungen, wie Sie in Ihrer Rolle als Erzieher/-in mit Kinderarmut in der Kita angemessen umgehen können.

Warum unsere Gesellschaft Arbeitslose verachtet und sie dennoch braucht. Faul. Ungebildet. Desinteressiert. Selber schuld. Als Kind von zwei Langzeitarbeitslosen weiß Anna Mayr, wie falsch solche Vorurteile sind. Früher schämte sie sich, dass ihre Eltern keine Jobs haben. Heute weiß sie, dass unsere Gesellschaft Menschen wie sie braucht: als drohendes Bild des Elends. In ihrem kämpferischen, thesenstarken Buch zeigt Mayr, warum wir die Geschichte der Arbeit neu denken müssen und wie eine Welt aussehen könnte, in der wir die Elenden nicht mehr brauchen, um unseren Leben Sinn zu geben.

Als Jeremias Thiel elf Jahre alt ist, macht er sich auf den Weg zum Jugendamt. Er hält es zu Hause nicht mehr aus, hat Angst, der Armut und Verwahrlosung, die dort herrschen, niemals entkommen zu können. Seine Eltern sind psychisch krank und leben von Hartz IV, die häusliche Situation ist mehr als schwierig. Von da an lebt er im SOS-Jugendhaus, bis er als Stipendiat auf ein internationales College geht und im Herbst 2019 sein Studium in den USA beginnt. Er ist sich sicher, dass viele, die in ähnlichen Verhältnissen leben, nicht die Möglichkeit haben, sich daraus zu befreien.

"A clarion call to address this most unjust blight upon the American landscape. Madrick has provided a valuable service in presenting a highly readable and cogent argument for change."--Mark R. Rank, The Washington Post By official count, more than one out of every six American children live...

In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us. He shows how a person's level of vulnerability to adverse changes in their life is very much dependent on the circumstances of their birth, including where their family lived, whether it was peacetime or wartime, whether they had access to clean water, and whether they are male or female.