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Missing men: America's fight against poverty has a growing hole. Some say it's time to pay attention to the people falling through it: men.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Missing men America's fight against poverty has a growing hole. Some say it's time to pay attention to the people falling through it: men. Boston Globe By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow | August 10, 2008 IN KEEPING WITH the work ethic of their Puritan forebears, Americans have always preferred to direct their generosity to the "deserving" poor: the have-nots who, through no fault of their own, are unable to support themselves. Since the New Deal, the first large-scale federal initiative to aid the needy, the US government has focused its antipoverty efforts on the vulnerable, such as the disabled, the elderly, widows, and children. In the 1930s, President Roosevelt launched programs to support these groups and to assist the unemployed during economic downturns - all populations affected by circumstances beyond their control...continue to full post

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