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Excerpts from new UI Press books
Excerpt: Reforming Child Welfare
As the director of the District of Columbia’s Child and Family Services Agency, Olivia Golden led reform of a system in federal receivership. Here she uses her expertise as an administrat...
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Excerpt: War and Taxes
“The history of America’s tax system can be written largely as a history of America’s wars.” During World War II, Americans were urged to ration food, raise money, and accept higher taxes...
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Excerpt: Nonprofits and Business
In this age of high-profile corporate foundations and socially responsible companies, the barrier between the nonprofit and business worlds is more permeable than ever. Nonprofits and Bus...
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Excerpt: Policy & Evidence in a Partisan Age
With the warring between left and right, Democrats and Republicans, advocacy groups on one side and advocacy groups on the other, it seems as if those who set our national agenda are thos...
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Excerpt: Creating a New Teaching Profession
“Improving teacher quality is a necessary—indeed, the key—ingredient for improving our nation’s schools,” the editors of Creating a New Teaching Profession conclude. But putting this advi...
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Excerpt: Saving America's High Schools
"High schools are not working for a substantial number of the 14 million adolescents they are charged with educating. At best, one in four public high school students does not graduate in...
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Repairing the U.S. Social Safety Net
The rising poverty and unemployment rates triggered by the recession are stark reminders of the need for a secure social safety net. Such programs should provide economic security, protec...
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Excerpt: Repairing the U.S. Social Safety Net
The rising poverty and unemployment rates triggered by the recession are stark reminders of the need for a secure social safety net. Such programs should provide economic security, protec...
From: uipress
