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Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan Revolution- and not necessarily by the Right. Historian Marisa Chappell provides a fresh look at the national debate about poverty, welfare, and economic...
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Library of America volume 313
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Already a frequent contributor of well-crafted stories to The New Yorker when he turned to the larger canvas of the novel, John OHara wrote with unusual acuity about the power of status and class in American life. His reputation as a novelist rests largely on four extraordinary books published from 1934 to 1940. These early novels, like those of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, dramatize the longings and dashed hopes of...
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A former member of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation describes her view of the events in the dispute between Planned Parenthood and her organization which threatened to end funding for Planned Parenthood, a major provider of health services for poor women.
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For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and asks what kinds of futures are possible for them given their seemingly hopeless situation. During her four years of fieldwork Knight documented women's struggles as...
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"El fuerte rumor que circula en el rancho de Santa Rosa, es que Lupita Rosales se marcha hacia Tepatitlan por la falta de dinero de sus padres. El patrón del rancho, Don Luis, se entera de la desagradable noticia y se acerca a los padres de Lupita ofreciendoles un prestamo, siempre y cuando Lupita trabaje como ama de llaves en la casa grande del rancho. Al llegar la noticia a oidos de Juan Ramón Mireles, el novio de Lupita, este explota de rabia...
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