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Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by strengthening the ties between urban residents and the …
The future of Social Security is troubled, both in the United States and in most other developed countries with aging populations. As improvements in health care and changes in …
The number of Americans eligible to receive Social Security benefits will increase from forty-five million to nearly eighty million in the next twenty years. Retirement systems …
Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department-a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. Inspired by …
This volume represents the most important work to date on one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. Although social security is facing …
American cities are constantly being built and rebuilt, resulting in ever-changing skylines and neighborhoods. While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago …
Northern whites in the post World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? …
When middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and 1970s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods thus entered phases of …
This volume presents innovative research on issues of importance to the well-being of older persons: labor market behavior, health care, housing and living arrangements, and saving …
A twentieth-century innovation, foreign aid has become a familiar and even expected element in international relations. But scholars and government officials continue to debate why …