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Both privileged poor students like Dr. Jack and doubly disadvantaged students encounter structural economic exclusion within universities. Through his analysis, Dr. Jack discovers that privileged poor students have a greater sense of belonging and adaptability in college compared to doubly disadvantaged students. In this regard, since the 1990s, elite universities in the USA have implemented loan-free student aid policies to address the issue of educational inequality. [Extracted from the article]

Chapters by Gandesha and Pellegrini emphasize that focusing on politicians like Trump can mask the socioeconomic context that contributes to their attractiveness. My reading and reviewing of this book coincide with various tragedies in a post-COVID world, including the terror of an unjustifiable war in Ukraine and the similarly unconscionable, heartbreaking death of Mahsa Amini. [Extracted from the article]

In Callow's analysis, social, political and religious tensions were expressed as witchcraft accusations targeted at three women whose biographies and appearance made them credible as diabolic witches. In I The Last Witches of England i John Callow examines the witch trials of Temperance Lloyd, Susanna Edwards and Mary Trembles in Bideford, Devon, England, in 1682. These three accused women are significant in the annals of English witchcraft because they were the last witches officially executed for the crime of witchcraft in England. [Extracted from the article]

In the concluding chapter, "Justice", Hannah-Jones offers a solution to the enduring racism that has pervaded America from the advent of colonial slavery to the present. An important book, I The 1619 Project i has generated much discussion but also great controversy. Unfortunately, the prescription provided by Hannah-Jones in the conclusion to I The 1619 Project i for overcoming slavery's legacy of racial inequity is more aspirational than analytic. [Extracted from the article]

Katrinell M. Davis's book, "Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery," provides a unique perspective on the Flint water crisis. As a Flint native, Davis offers insight into the factors that contributed to the crisis and its aftermath. The book traces the history of Flint's decline, highlighting failed urban renewal policies, racial discrimination, and disinvestment. Davis also explores how residents cope with the failures of public service provision and struggle to make their voices heard. Despite the challenges, the book emphasizes the resilience and determination of Flint's residents in their fight for justice and a better future. [Extracted from the article]

Thus, addressing the economics of agriculture without paying special attention to issues related to agricultural sector inefficiencies such as post-harvest crop losses, especially in countries that highly depend on agriculture, is to limit knowledge on the matter. The role of agriculture is not limited to the assurance of food security, but is largely hidden in the growth of economies, especially for countries whose economies depend on agriculture. Agriculture in the developing world is hindered by several factors, which are mainly categorised into institutional factors; poverty, geographical and climate factors; and human factors. [Extracted from the article]

But the author also explains how I weak government capacity i had deleterious effects on the preparation for the CRR's implementation stage, especially in terms of strengthening and creating new institutions. New laws (such as the 2011 I Law for Victims and Land Restitution i ) and institutions were created that would hold the state accountable for redistributing land and providing other kinds of support to victims as part of a larger state-building exercise. While the observations on the CRR's political feasibility creating a credible commitment was important within the frame of the negotiation phase, the author could have retrospectively commented on the CRR's current low and uneven implementation vis-à-vis the other chapters in the Peace Agreement. This chapter is particularly strong in its disaggregation of government actors and processes, and it effectively counters the oversimplified narrative of conflict-ridden states being unable to build peace due to lack of state control. [Extracted from the article]

Chapple and Loukaitou-Sideris use a multifaceted methodology to investigate the relationship between neighborhood change and transit investments that includes both quantitative and qualitative elements. Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities: by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2019, 368 pp., $40.00 (paperback), ISBN 978 0 26253 685 1 I Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends i makes an important contribution to the planning literature by interrogating the relationship between transportation investment and neighborhood change - more specifically, gentrification and displacement. [Extracted from the article]

With a slave-holding Southern aristocracy and a strongly puritanical Social Darwinist capitalist class in the North, the United States became a plutocracy with the veneer of democracy in the nineteenth century. (New York, NY: The New Press, 2021), 349 pp. [Extracted from the article]

Some authors acknowledge that microfinance providers are a distinct group from the borrowers, but rare (if any) authors address the impact of cultural factors and the intersection of identities, such as race, class, and gender, on microfinance allocations. Also, through the book, Hossein does not only focus on challenging how microfinance has commercialised, but also how researchers and microfinance providers have neglected different indigenous banking systems. Some critics state that Hossein disregards the political framework where microfinance operates and is regulated as well as the impacts of microfinance in other regions. Award-winner Hossein has been applauded for criticising commercial microfinance and its connections with political system and showing positive examples of informal type of microfinance. [Extracted from the article]

Walsh organizes her analysis around what she terms "taxpayer citizenship", which she argues has been a powerful identity that influenced the design of taxation systems and has served to justify them since. In her investigation of "taxpayer citizen" status, Walsh excavated quotes from primary sources that the reader will want to review twice, if only to grasp the violence that euphemisms such as "taxpayer" barely coated. Taxpayer identity, Walsh demonstrates, was inherently "linked to the racialized entitlements to educational access and resources from the late nineteenth century onward and has helped to entrench a school finance system with differential levels of citizenship and rights" (3). The idea that "taxpayer citizenship" was part of a broader "legal consciousness", institutionalized and normalized in the nineteenth century but powerful beyond it, is as persuasive as it is groundbreaking, and it contributes to our current understanding of discrepancies between actual tax contributions and representations of taxpayers in discourse (85). [Extracted from the article]

The authors recognize the three major forms of childcare subsidies used in the United States: Child Care and Developmental Block Grants, Child Care and Dependent Tax Credit, and an employer-administered dependent care assistance program. It is common knowledge among educators, developmental psychologists, and child developmental scholars alike that early intervention is used to combat long-term disparities, inequities, and social, emotional, and academic disadvantages. They also propose a wage replacement rate of 66.7 percent of their expected work earnings and more "progressive wage replacement" at the lowest levels of earning (p. 155). [Extracted from the article]

It shows that Milton modelled his understanding of English nationhood on a Christian eschatological concept called "the faithful remnant", referring to those members of the True Church who will still be alive at the time of the Last Judgment and who will thus pass into paradise without first having to die. The goal seems to be to learn to see the world from Milton's perspective even on issues where Milton is stupid, crazy, or evil according to present-day standards. For Milton's True-Church English nation excludes many historical figures (and living people) who are English according to any normal definition, except that they were (or are) not the right kind of Protestant for Milton. From the perspective of a person dissatisfied with the sovereign, Hobbes's man-made absolute judgment would probably be just as frightening as the divine judgment Milton found in Protestant piety. [Extracted from the article]

The past few decades have witnessed a notable increase in the engagement of developing countries in international trade, coinciding with rapid economic growth and massive poverty reduction. The findings suggest that trade openness has significantly benefited economic growth and, less significantly, poverty reduction. Yet, there is still much debate on the role of greater trade openness in economic growth and the channels through which trade affects poverty and economic inequality. [Extracted from the article]