by Aldred H. Neufeldt, Alison L. Albright (1998)
"Be it the result of blatant discrimination, or a narrow focus by policymakers or professionals, historically we have been led to believe there are only two options for people with disabilities: reliance on familial assistance plus social safety nets, or wage employment. However, there is another possibility: self-directed employment - people with disabilities owning their own businesses. Disability and Self-directed Employment is the first comprehensive exploration of this alternative. It began as the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons was coming to a close, with the question: "What international initiative could also serve as a lasting benefit to persons with disabilities in all parts of the world?" The answer is this thorough study of systematic approaches intended to aid in the creation of self-directed employment for disabled people."--BOOK JACKET.
Colin Barrow
This practical guide will tell you how to start up and run your own business from anywhere in the world. Starting a Business from Home will tell you everything you need to know about running a profitable and successful business from your own home with particular emphasis on opportunities provided by the internet.
Timothy Wittig
Understanding Terrorist Finance provides powerful new insights in the financial and economic realities of terrorist groups.€Dispelling popular myths, the book presents the first unified coherent framework for the systematic analysis of terrorist finance and includes empirical studies of the financing of groups in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Wittig finds that the activities typically represented as 'terrorist finance', such as donations, criminal activities€and€weapons procurement, ought to be understood in terms of how terrorists ₆ as socio-political actors ₆ access and interact with€flows of economic value rather than as elements of an illicit financial edifice supposedly underpinning global terrorism.
Jenna Glatzer
Step-by-step instructions on how writers can earn top dollar writing for magazines are provided in this book. Secrets are revealed about what the high-paying magazines really want, how to build relationships with editors, how to ascertain which sections of a magazine are open to freelancers, what kinds of stories are in demand, what to do if a deadbeat publisher doesn’t pay up, how to market reprints, and how to become an expert in one’s chosen writing field. Basic terms like query, clips, and source sheet are defined for beginning writers, and tips on everything from coming up with an idea to pitching a syndicated column are also included. Writers learn about the little-known sources top freelancers use to find new stories and experts. In addition, they learn how to get their first paying assignments even if they have no prior clips, how to negotiate for better pay, how to find high-paying magazines that aren’t swamped with queries, and how to worm their way into editors’ inboxes even if their e-mail addresses aren’t publicized.
Susan E. Mayer
Children from poor families generally do a lot worse than children from affluent families. They are more likely to develop behavioural problems, to score lower on standard tests, and to become adults in need of public assistance. This book asks whether income directly affects children's life chances, or if the factors that cause parents to have a low income also impede their children's life chances. The question of causation is explored, comparing the value of income from different sources, to determine if the value of a dollar from welfare is as high as the value of a dollar from wages. Parents' income after an event, such as teenage childbearing, is also investigated in order to establish whether it can predict that event, if so this suggests that income is a proxy for unmeasured characteristics that affect both income and the event. The author also compares children living in states that pay high welfare benefits to those with low benefits.