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Social Solutions to Poverty: America's Struggle to Build a Just Society

Social Solutions to Poverty: America's Struggle to Build a Just Society

Myers-Lipton, Scott
Lemert, Charles C.

Hardcover

General United States HistoryPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1594512108
ISBN13: 9781594512100
Publisher: Paradigm Publ
Published: Jul 1 2006
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The voices of famous and lesser known figures in America's quest to reduce poverty are collected for the first time in this comprehensive historical anthology. The book traces the most important ideas and contributions of citizens, activists, labour leaders, scholars, politicians, and governmental agencies to ensure American citizens the basics of food, housing, employment, education, and health care. The book follows the idea of poverty reduction from Thomas Paine's agrarian justice to Josiah Quincy's proposal for the construction of poorhouses; from the Freedmen's Bureau to Sitting Bull's demand for money and supplies; from Coxey's army of the unemployed to Jane Addams's Hull House; from the Civil Works Administration to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call for an Economic Bill of Rights; and from William Julius Wilson's universal programme of reform to George W. Bush's armies of compassion.

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