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From “Revolutionary Adventure” to “Not Great, Just Better”: The Fight to Remove Juveniles from Pennsylvania’s Camp Hill Prison Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Michael B. Schlossman
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Tolerating Risk: Professional Judgment in Suicide Risk Assessment Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Cheryl Regehr,Jane Paterson,Karen Sewell,Arija Birze,Marion Bogo,Barbara Fallon,Glenn Regehr
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The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jennifer Mosley
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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration. By Reuben Jonathan Miller. New York: Little, Brown, 2021. Pp. 352. $29.00 (cloth); $18.99 (paper). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Carrie Pettus
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The Vernacular Ethics of Stigmatized Care: Reinterpreting Acceptance and Confidentiality for Social Work in the West Bank, Palestine Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 David S. Byers,Anan Fareed,Khalid Hreish
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Paying for Childcare to Work? Evaluating the Role of Policy in Affordable Care and Child Poverty Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Robert Paul Hartley,Marybeth J. Mattingly,Jane Waldfogel,Christopher Wimer
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Theorizing a Social Ecology of Displacement: Structural-, Relational-, and Individual-Level Conditions of Homelessness among Young People Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Gina E. Miranda Samuels,Susanna R. Curry,Christine Cerven
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Inequality of the Safety Net: The Rural-Urban Continuum, County-Level Poverty, and Nonprofit Human Services Expenditures Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Shoshana Shapiro
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An Equity Analysis of Applying for Welfare: TANF Application and Denial Reasons by Household and County Characteristics Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Andrea Hetling,Stephanie Holcomb,David Seith,Annette Riordan,Juan Santiago,Jessica L. Roman,Stephanie Lupinacci,Amman Seehra
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Help after Hardship: Trends and Disparities in Sources of Support following Experiences with Material Hardship Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Colin Campbell
When faced with material hardships like missing a rent payment or having telephone service disconnected, where do people find help? Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, I examine the receipt of assistance following material hardships. I find that most people do not receive assistance following a hardship, but when people do receive assistance, social ties are a more common
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“Making It Work”: Accommodation and Resistance to Federal Policy in a Homelessness Continuum of Care Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Jennifer M. Frank,Jim Baumohl
This is a case study of the development of a rural continuum of care (CoC) program funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to create a coherent system of services and planning processes to end homelessness. It concerns how the founding local coalition of agencies managed internal conflicts about HUD’s changing programmatic and administrative requirements from 1994 to 2015
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The Well-Being Development Model: A Theoretical Model to Improve Outcomes among Criminal Justice System–Involved Individuals Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Carrie Pettus,Christopher A. Veeh,Tanya R. Renn,Stephanie C. Kennedy
This article proposes a new conceptual framework, the Well-Being Development Model (WBDM), to support the development, implementation, and assessment of innovative reentry interventions designed to increase well-being among the millions of individuals released from prisons and jails each year. In contrast to prominent models guiding reentry services, the WBDM increases incarcerated and formerly incarcerated
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Satisfaction with Child Support Services Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Daniel R. Meyer,Yoona Kim
Although previous qualitative research in the United States suggests that noncustodial parents have difficult experiences with the child support system, there is no large-scale study of satisfaction. We use data on more than 1,800 socioeconomically disadvantaged noncustodial parents to explore their level of satisfaction and whether it is related to later child support payments. In contrast to qualitative
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Barriers to Formal Child Support Payment Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Lawrence M. Berger,Maria Cancian,Angela Guarin,Leslie Hodges,Daniel R. Meyer
Child support income has the potential to substantially reduce economic hardship for children living apart from their fathers, but many fathers have limited earnings and are unable to pay the support they owe. Understanding their employment barriers has implications for their child support payments and for child support agency services. Using data from a survey of nearly 3,800 noncustodial fathers
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Voting Infrastructure and Process: Another Form of Voter Suppression? Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Kyle Pitzer,Gena Gunn Mcclendon,Michael Sherraden
This study examines whether infrastructure and processes at polling places vary by the race and income of the community where polls are located and whether voting infrastructure and process are associated with actual voting by registered voters (typically termed “voter turnout”). Data come from a systematic sample of 20 polling places in St. Louis and St. Louis County, Missouri, on Election Day in
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Lost and Found: Young Fathers in the Age of Unwed Parenthood. By Paul Florsheim and David Moore. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 432. $29.95 (cloth). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Justin S. Harty
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The Analogy of Child Protection as Public Health: An Analysis of Utility, Fit, Awareness, and Need Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Brian Q. Jenkins
Public health approaches to child protection operate by way of analogy. They attempt to import knowledge from the field of public health into the field of child protection by implying equivalences between the fields. This article draws on Kellert’s (2008) criteria for evaluating metaphors in scientific reasoning: utility, fit, awareness, and need. It argues that the analogy can be useful but demonstrates
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Liminal Citizenship: Young People’s Perspectives on Civic and Political Engagement in Three European Cities Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Robert Chaskin,Bernadine Brady,Caroline Mcgregor
Concerns about young people’s disengagement from civic and political life, particularly disengagement of those from marginalized backgrounds, are prominent in contemporary discourse and increasingly serve as an impetus driving youth policy. Effectively engaging disadvantaged youth, however, can be difficult, and the factors that contribute to these challenges are complex. This is particularly true
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All Work and No Play: Indigenous Women "Pulling the Weight" in Home Life. Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Catherine Elizabeth McKinley,Jessica Liddell,Jennifer Lilly
The invisible labor of household management, including child care, housework, and financial responsibilities, is a contemporary form of historical oppression adding strain and contributing to mothers' role overload, depression, distress, and health impairments. The purpose of this article is to use the Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence to understand the experiences of
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Early Childhood Education and Care Programs in the United States: Does Access Improve Child Safety? Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Jessica Pac
The aim of this article is to assess the role of early childhood education and care (ECEC) program access and generosity on child maltreatment as measured by Child Protective Services (CPS) reports. Using administrative data capturing CPS reports in the United States, I estimate the role of Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) child-care subsidies, Head Start, Early Head Start, state prekindergarten
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Bridging the Divide between Child Welfare and Home Visiting Systems to Address the Needs of Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Care Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Amy Dworsky,Elissa R. Gitlow,Kristen Ethier
This article presents findings from an implementation study of a pilot project that connected pregnant and parenting youth in care with home visiting services. It draws primarily on semistructured interviews conducted with the practitioners who delivered those services and the parents who received them. We find that home visiting services can be delivered successfully to pregnant and parenting youth
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Toward Freedom: The Case against Race Reductionism. By Touré F. Reed. London: Verso, 2020. Pp. 224. $19.95 (paper). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Roberto R. Aspholm
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The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Mark Courtney
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The Legacy of Slavery and Mass Incarceration: Evidence from Felony Case Outcomes Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Aaron Gottlieb,Kalen Flynn
One common explanation for mass incarceration is that it is the latest in a series of institutions created to enforce the racial hierarchy in the United States. Despite this perspective’s prominence, it has been rarely tested empirically with extensive quantitative data. In this article, we begin to fill this gap by examining whether individuals charged with felonies experience worst-case outcomes
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From Fostering Hope to Lingering Harm: The Unintended Impact of the OxyContin Reformulation on Child Welfare Utilization Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Mattie Mackenzie-Liu
American government officials are increasingly enacting supply-side interventions, such as drug reformulations, to combat the opioid crisis. I study the unintended consequences of the OxyContin reformulation on child welfare utilization by exploiting cross-state variation in rates of prereformulation OxyContin misuse. A growing literature suggests that after the reformulation, a subset of people with
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Announcement of Special Issue and Call for Papers: The Afterlife of Mass Incarceration Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Reuben Jonathan Miller
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New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question. By Neil Brenner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 480. $99.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Tadeo Weiner Davis
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The Goldilocks Problem: Tensions between Actuarially Based and Clinical Judgment in Child Welfare Decision Making Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Emily Bosk, Megan Feely
The Structured Decision-Making Model’s risk assessment (RA) is a prominent feature of front-end child protection work. Examining how two different states have set policy to implement the RA, we analyze their distinct choices and unintended consequences. We propose that variation in implementation originates not from individual workers but from two nested sources. First, the RA embeds an implicit epistemological
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School Social Workers as Nepantleras in Equity Work for Immigrant Students: A Conceptual Exploration Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Sophia Rodriguez, Benjamin Roth, Leticia Villarreal Sosa
This article investigates the critical role school social workers play in promoting equity and advocating for immigrant students in K–12 settings. We explore and conceptualize the notion of nepantlera from the work of Gloria Anzaldúa and draw from qualitative data to show how school social workers function as nepantleras in service and advocacy roles for immigrant students. We further argue that the
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Household Economic Exclusion among Danish Children: Evaluating Independent and Joint Risks of Income Poverty and Parental Labor Market Exclusion Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Simone Norlund Vering Johansen, Peter Fallesen, Lawrence M. Berger, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen
Low household income and social exclusion increase children’s risk for unsuccessful transitions to adulthood. Yet we know little about children’s cumulative risk of experiencing poverty and parental labor market exclusion during childhood and to what extent these circumstances co-occur. We estimate annual separate and joint cumulative period risks for experiencing living in a household with income
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Ethnic-Racial Socialization among Latinx Families: A Systematic Review of the Literature Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Cecilia Ayón, Tanya Nieri, Elizabeth Ruano
The purpose of this study was to systematically review the literature on ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) in Latinx families to examine (1) ERS strategies used by parents and (2) associations between ERS and children’s social-behavioral health and academic outcomes. A systemic review of peer-reviewed articles using PsycINFO, Social Services Abstracts, and PubMed was completed. Inclusion criteria included
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Values at the End of Life: The Logic of Palliative Care. By Roi Livne. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 341. $45.00 (cloth). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Katherine Gibson
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The Role of Fathers in Reducing Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Daniel P. Miller, Maureen R. Waller, Allison Dwyer Emory
There are well-established disparities in children’s socioemotional well-being by family socioeconomic status (SES). Although evidence suggests that father involvement can improve child outcomes, no studies have considered whether father involvement among low-SES children can reduce such gaps. We use 10 years of panel data on children born in large US cities to explore the associations between father
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The Discursive Construction of Risk: Social Work Knowledge Production and Criminalized Women Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Sandra M. Leotti
Given the concurrent phenomena of mass incarceration and neoliberal evolutions in the welfare state, it is inevitable that criminalized women will encounter social workers in their everyday lives. Under the conceptual lens of governmentality, social workers play a central role in reinforcing and interrupting processes of criminalization. This critical discourse analysis examines knowledge production
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Coproduction in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorder and Its Relationship to Clinics’ Service Output Patterns Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Sunggeun (Ethan) Park
Health, social, and human service providers seek diverse ways to engage service users in the service production process. This approach to engagement with users is known as “coproduction.” In addition to conventional user-provider coproduction (i.e., patient-centered care), providers attending to stigmatized and marginalized groups may hire staff who share life experiences with user groups. These providers
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Constructing the Reproductive Behavior of Poor People: Regulating Procreation by Public Aid Recipients from Malthus to Murray Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Stephen Monroe Tomczak
This article examines the influence of dominant thinkers, social welfare leaders, and popular authors who asserted that public aid stimulates recipients’ biological reproduction. This idea was first systematized by political economist Thomas Robert Malthus during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, most notably in his famous Essay on the Principle of Population. Malthusian ideas on
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Federal Welfare Time-Limit Extensions and Exemptions: Why Does Utilization Vary across States and over Time? Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Andrea Hetling, Karen Baehler, Rafay Kazmi
Establishing public cash assistance as a time-limited benefit was a key and controversial feature of the 1996 welfare reform legislation. Many advocates and practitioners consider the formalization of program flexibility through time-limit exemptions and extensions to be critical in helping the most vulnerable families. Despite these options, including states’ ability to exempt up to 20 percent of
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Golden Years? Social Inequality in Later Life. By Deborah Carr. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2019. Pp. 376. $35.00 (paper). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Emily J. Nicklett,John E. Tropman
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Moving toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing. By Richard H. Sander, Yana A. Kucheva, and Jonathan M. Zasloff. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 608. $41.00 (cloth). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Akira Drake Rodriguez
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Psychiatry and Its Discontents. By Andrew Scull. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. Pp. 376. $29.95 (cloth). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Allan Horwitz
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Can Administrative Changes Improve Child-Care Subsidy Stability? Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Yoonsook Ha, Pamela Joshi, Kate Giapponi Schneider, Erin Hardy
This study assesses administrative changes in Massachusetts that shifted the responsibility for child-care subsidy-eligibility reassessments from regional Child Care Resource and Referral agencies to locally contracted child-care providers. The study applies a mixed-methods approach, using (1) state administrative data to examine the association between the administrative changes and children’s stability
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Has Volunteering Changed in the United States? Trends, Styles, and Motivations in Historical Perspective Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Susan M. Chambré
This article considers whether there have been substantial changes in volunteering in the United States. Drawing on an extensive review of historical, ethnographic, and survey data, it focuses on trends, styles, and motivations of volunteers. The article describes how volunteer rates are cyclical and contingent on social and cultural changes, including events that serve as national traumas, such as
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The Initial Nonprofit Exposure and Response to Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Scott W. Allard, Jennifer Romich, James H. Buszkiewicz, Anne K. Althauser, Emmi E. Obara
Nearly 40 local governments adopted minimum wage rates higher than the federal minimum in the last decade. Research on such laws focuses on employment and price adjustments of for-profit firms. Higher minimum wage rates, however, may pose unique challenges to community-based nonprofit organizations, many of which serve vulnerable communities and have limited ability to modify business practices. We
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“Mom, I’m Pregnant”: The Adolescent Pregnancy Reveal Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Cynthia Osborne, Nora Ankrum
The pregnancy reveal is conventionally a celebratory occasion, but for a pregnant adolescent, sharing news of a pregnancy, particularly with parents, can be a daunting prospect. Nonetheless, given the importance of social support to pregnant and parenting adolescents’ success, the pregnancy reveal is an important step toward making healthy pregnancy decisions. Drawing on data from 27 in-depth interviews
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What Happens When the Amount of Child Support Due Is a Burden? Revisiting the Relationship between Child Support Orders and Child Support Payments Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Leslie Hodges, Daniel R. Meyer, Maria Cancian
Child support policies typically call for noncustodial fathers to provide their children financial support. However, setting orders too high may be counterproductive, resulting in lower payments and compliance and less regular payments. But how high is too high? Prior research is dated and inconsistent. We reexamine the relationship between the burden of orders and payments, compliance, and regularity
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Facing Segregation: Housing Policy Solutions for a Stronger Society. Edited by Molly W. Metzger and Henry S. Webber. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 280. $40.00 (cloth). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Amy T. Khare,Emily K. Miller
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The Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Mark Courtney
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Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution. By Monica Prasad. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2018. Pp. 328. $35.95 (paper). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Mark R. Rank
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. By Virginia Eubanks. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2017. Pp. 272. $26.99 (cloth). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Nicole P. Marwell
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Words of Common Cause: Social Work’s Historical Democratic Discourse Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Jessica Toft
The United States’ present neoliberal era shares with earlier tumultuous periods significant repressive tendencies in the political and economic domains. In the past, leading social workers confronted such crises in public forums and venues. This discourse analysis examines how they constructed compelling democratic narratives that influenced the enactment of beneficial social policy within three periods
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Patterns of Multiple Instability among Low-Income Families with Children Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Yoonsook Ha, Margaret M. C. Thomas, Thomas Byrne, Daniel P. Miller
Low-income families experience multiple forms of instability, yet researchers have often focused on a single type of instability. This study used data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and examined patterns of multiple instability among low-income families with children, focusing on income, family structure, and residential instability. We employed sequence and cluster analyses to
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Organizing Together: Benefits and Drawbacks of Community-Labor Coalitions for Community Organizations Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Marc Doussard, Brad R. Fulton
Community-labor coalitions unite grassroots community organizations and hierarchical labor unions with the promise of increasing the effectiveness of each. Little is known, however, about whether and how community organizations benefit from such partnerships. We analyze survey data from the National Study of Community Organizing Organizations and field data from community-labor coalitions in Chicago
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No Place Called Home: Student Homelessness and Structural Correlates Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Michael Evangelist, H. Luke Shaefer
During the 2015–16 school year, 1.3 million students nationwide experienced homelessness. Yet hardships like homelessness represent dynamic rather than static states, and so annual figures understate the cumulative risk that students face over time. Moreover, despite recent efforts to understand eviction and foreclosure as exploitative and racialized processes, there have been few efforts to connect
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When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency. By Bernardo Zacka. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 352. $36.00 (cloth). Social Service Review (IF 1.744) Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Yanilda María González