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‘Workers using foodbanks’: the embedding of food insecurity at the nexus of welfare and employment laws 使用食物银行的工人"：福利法与就业法之间的粮食不安全问题

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2024d000000026

L.J.B. Hayes, Naomi Maynard

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‘Workers using foodbanks’: the embedding of food insecurity at the nexus of welfare and employment laws 使用食物银行的工人"：福利法与就业法之间的粮食不安全问题

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2024d000000026

L.J.B. Hayes, Naomi Maynard

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Scamming the poor: fraudulent loans in Mexico 诈骗穷人：墨西哥的欺诈性贷款

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2024d000000023

T. Ghys, Yessica Elizabet Llanes-García

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Poverty and social security in South Korea 韩国的贫困与社会保障

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2024d000000020

Marco Pomati, J. Mack

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Welfare attitudes in Korean society: effects of cohort and social exclusion 韩国社会的福利态度：群体和社会排斥的影响

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2024d000000018

Seunghoon Choi

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The merging of knowledge? Lived experience of poverty and its place in public debate 知识的融合？贫困的生活体验及其在公共辩论中的地位

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2024d000000019

Fran Bennett

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‘Covering all the [welfare] basics’: a critical policy study of the Expert Panel on Basic Income report in British Columbia, Canada 涵盖所有[福利]基本要素"：对加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省基本收入专家小组报告的批判性政策研究

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2024d000000016

Tracy Smith-Carrier, Evelyn Forget, Elaine Power, Chloe Halpenny

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Contradictions, dilemmas, views and motivations of volunteers in two community food support schemes in two London boroughs 伦敦两个区两个社区食品支持计划中志愿者的矛盾、困境、观点和动机

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2024d000000017

Hilda Mulrooney, Ronald Ranta

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‘It’s a struggle’ – the role of the school Health and Well-being Lead in supporting families in poverty 这是一场斗争"--学校卫生与福利负责人在支持贫困家庭方面的作用

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-02-26 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2024d000000014

Sandra Lyndon, Carla Solvason, Rebecca Webb

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Abolishing poverty in the Basque Country: two feasible basic income models 消除巴斯克地区的贫困：两种可行的基本收入模式

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Pub Date : 2024-02-26 DOI: 10.1332/17598273y2024d000000015

Julen Bollain

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