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Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America | Christopher Howard
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The first comprehensive map of the social safety net, public and private, in the United States. Societies are often judged by how they treat their most vulnerable members: the poor and near poor. In the United States, this responsibility belongs not only to governments, but also to charities, businesses, individuals, and family members. Their combined efforts generate a social safety net. In Who Cares, Christopher Howard offers the first comprehensive map of the US social safety net. He chronicles how different parts of American society talk about poverty-related needs. And he shows what Americans do to provide basic levels of income, food, housing, medical care, and daily care. Although the US social safety net is extensive, major gaps remain, particularly impacting Blacks, Hispanics, and individuals who are not employed full-time. Drawing heavily upon evidence from the years right before the Covid-19 pandemic, Howard demonstrates that these problems persist even when the economy seems healthy. Who Cares concludes with an initial assessment of how the social safety net performed during the pandemic.
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We do not care if we sent our son Strange Pictures even though we hadn‘t read it, but because lots of Litsy readers liked it, and he likes puzzles, but then he asked if he was a Guinea pig, to which we replied some children might just say thanks for sending me a book mom, after which we heard an embarrassed laugh.

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Deblovestoread My daughter is definitely a my reading guinea pig when it comes to anything leaning to horror. 2mo
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