Renewing American CompassionRegnery Publishing, 1997 M04 1 - 208 pages Offers dozens of success stories, and a summary of history's lessons, to show concrete ways for each of us to help our neighbors. |
Contents
Conventional Welfare Reform | 6 |
An Alternative Model | 17 |
From Wilderness to Neighborhood | 34 |
The Good Old Days? | 47 |
TwentiethCentury Debacle | 64 |
That Was Then This Is Now? | 80 |
Pushing the Back of the Envelope | 98 |
Down the Drain? | 118 |
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