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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

Jane Addams

1910

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Poverty Political theory Role of government Charity

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Sociology

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1910

Person

Jane Addams

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Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull House. The Macmillan Company, 1910.

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