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Public welfare

How to get the poor off our conscience

Americans in limbo

They're not the "new poor"--yet--but they're losing their grip on the middle class. Downward mobility--the most important sociological development of the 1980s.

Treating poverty

by Tom Bethell,

Wherein the cure gives rise to the disease

Reason not the need

by James Herndon,

Indian voices

by Harper’s Staff,

Getting on welfare

by Paul Jacobs,

Mr. Shriver and the savage politics of poverty

by William F. Haddad,

Mr. Ribicoff of Welfare Street

by William Smith White,

A way out of the welfare mess

by Edgar May,

Families on wheels

by Alvin Louis Schorr,

Beveridge plans are not enough

by C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan,