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Brian Fikkert • When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
Social Conservatism for the Common Good: A Protestant Engagement with Robert P. George
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When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
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Reconciliation of relationships is the guiding compass for our poverty-alleviation efforts, profoundly shaping both the goals that we pursue and the methods we use. The goal is not to make the materially poor all over the world into middle-to-upper-class North Americans, a group characterized by high rates of divorce, sexual addiction, substance
... See moreBrian Fikkert • When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
In 1949, the federal government enacted a new approach to the housing problems of cities: urban renewal. The approach was new both in philosophy—for the first time in America, government was given the right to seize an individual’s private property not for its own use but for reassignment to another individual for his use and profit—and in scope: a
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Low-income areas in the United States are often “food deserts,” meaning that the neighborhoods lack access to fresh and healthy foods.
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
