Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of DisadvantageAs increasing numbers of young people unemployed and unemployable bear babies they are incapable of rearing, Lisbeth and Daniel Schorr take a bold, hardheaded, and optimistic approach to reversing the incidence of welfare dependency and alienated, uneducated youth. |
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Inseparable Combination | 179 |
Schools Balance Wheel of the Social Machinery | 215 |
IO The Lessons of Successful Programs | 256 |
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