Almost worthy : the poor, paupers, and the science of charity in America, 1877-1917 / Brent Ruswick.
In the 1880s, social reform leaders warned that the ""unworthy"" poor were taking charitable relief intended for the truly deserving. Armed with statistics and confused notions of evolution, these ""scientific charity"" reformers founded organizations intent o...
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