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“Free Market” Social Services Fail to Deliver
Where do you turn when your aging mother can’t be by herself anymore or you notice your baby seems a little delayed? Imagine that your teenager start skipping school and staying out all night or...
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Time to Cap the Debate on Social Security and Medicare
Social Security and Medicare are in serious financial trouble in the future because they have been under attack for so long that how we thing of them has been changed by those who wish to kill these...
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Does Philanthropy End Up Hurting the Poor and Vulnerable?
What follows is my response to an open discussion about the role and social value of philanthropic foundations. It is my response to the lead article by Dr. Rob Reich, which can be read in its...
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Snippets: Toxic Stress and New Ways to Combat the Impact of Child Abuse and...
What follows is a snip-it of an excellent article from the Opinionator section of the New York Times by David Bornstein. Within the article are hyperlinks to excellent source material on childhood...
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Declaring War on the Poor
by Brian T. Lynch, MSW Thom Tillis is now Senator elect from North Carolina, having beaten Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan in the 2014 election. During his campaign Tillis berated the poor and suggested...
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by Brian T. Lynch, MSW “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” There is some wisdom in this old English proverb. It seems obvious that our...
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Jane Addams, A Great American Hero
On our trip to Chicago, my wife and I visited Hull House, one of the first Settlement Houses in the United States and home to Jane Addams. It is now a museum located in the middle of the University of...
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