What's Love Got to Do With It?

Author: David Wagner
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1565846370

What's Love Got to Do With It?: A Critical Look at American Charity

A groundbreaking critique of American charity which Barbara Ehrenreich says "demolishes the conventional wisdom that private philanthropy is innately superior to public welfare measures. Download What's Love Got to Do With It?: A Critical Look at American Charity from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. What's Love Got to Do with It? is an insightful debunking of the way charitable giving disguises American neglect of the public welfare. Award-winning Professor of Social Work and Sociology David Wagner points out that while the United States prides itself on being one of the most generous nations, it provides its citizens with the lowest public benefits of any Western society and has rates of poverty and inequality among the highest in the industrialized world. These two facts, Wagner argues, are not unrelated: independent philanthropy actually provides Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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