A social safety net (SSN) consists of non-contributory assistance designed to improve the lives of vulnerable families and individuals experiencing poverty or destitution; much is governmental.

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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism. And Other Arguments for Economic Independence is a 2018 book by American anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee and published by Vintage Books. In the …

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Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in …

Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali: [ˈɔmortːo ˈʃen]; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, Sen …

Guaranteed minimum income (GMI), also called minimum income (or mincome for short), is a social- welfare system that guarantees all citizens or families an income sufficient to live on, provided that …

In his 2019 non-fiction book, which is based on several years of research undertaken in the 2010s in the South and Midwest states— Missouri, Tennessee and Kansas, physician and psychiatrist Jonathan …