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Author Dunbar, Leslie.

Title The common interest : how our social-welfare policies don't work and what we can do about them / Leslie W. Dunbar ; foreword by Charles V. Hamilton.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Pantheon Books, [1988]
©1988

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  J WEI    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  361.6    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  361.6109 DUNBAR    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 233 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Observations and values -- To receive in dignity: the ill and the aged -- A just entitlement: that there be work -- To receive in dignity: the poor -- A just entitlement: that children may grow in good nature.
Summary Discusses the nature, causes, and possible cures of poverty, analyzes the current welfare system, and shares the stories of the poor.
Local Subject Poor people -- Services for -- United States -- Case studies.
Subject Welfare recipients -- United States -- Case studies.
Public welfare -- United States.
Poor -- Services for -- United States -- Case studies.
Social security -- United States.
ISBN 0394565584
9780394565583
0679739653 (paperback)
9780679739654 (paperback)
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