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In this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when... read more
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- Janet Poppendieck: Add a description of this character.
- Janet Poppendieek
- Wenceslas
- Ronald Reagan
- Immokalee
- Van Hengel
- Bill Bolling
- Jill Bullard
- Madeline Lund
- Hawley Botchford
- Clinton
- Fran Ficorelli
- Pat Robertson
- Campbell
- Newt Gingrich
- Mary
- Hecht
- Kathy Goldman
- Meese
- Doreen Wohl
- Judy
- Cramer
Setting & Locations edit
- America
- New York City
- Maine
- United States
- California
- Florida
- Washington
- Coney Island
- Chicago
- Arizona
- D.c.
- Oxnard
- Naples
- Brooklyn
- Kansas City
- Mississippi
- Africa
- Lewiston
- New Jersey
- Atlanta
- White House
- Steeplechase Park
- Phoenix
- Salt
- Pennsylvania
- St. Paul
- Guadalupe Center
First Sentence edit
IT SNOWED IN BROOKLYN the night before I was scheduled to begin my research at the soup kitchen.
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- Janet Poppendieck (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0670880205
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Viking
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0670880205
Page Count: 320
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- Dewey: 363.8830973
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