The existing Social Security special minimum benefit, which offers an alternative benefit formula for long-term workers with low levels of wages across many years, has the potential to reduce poverty among the elderly, while rewarding significant numbers of working years. The paper proposes...

Censuses have traditionally been a key source of localised information on the state of a nation's health. Many countries are now adopting alternative approaches to the traditional census, placing such information at risk. The purpose of this paper is to inform debate about whether existing...

Recent debates have suggested that increasing social diversity within Western economies is associated with adverse social consequences such as loss of community and decline of civic society, including an erosion of collective efficacy (ie shared expectations of and mutual engagement by residents...

The goal of this qualitative study was to demonstrate the achievements and failures of services that attempt to reach those most likely to be left out of the homeless-services delivery model - the chronically homeless street population. In 36 interviews with current and former chronically...