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When Help Is Not Just Around the Corner

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Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
by Scott W. Allard

In the United States, assistance for the poor has evolved from a welfare system made up primarily of cash assistance and other direct benefits into a network of social-service nonprofit groups designed to provide employment assistance, low-cost...

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