"USA" . . "POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare" . . "Armutspolitik" . . "Public welfare United States." . . "Poor United States." . . . . "Sozialhilfe" . . "Poverty United States." . . "POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security" . . . . . . . . . . . "Lawrence M. Mead critiques the moral presuppositions of past and current endeavors to alleviate poverty and provides a framework for future efforts based on an approach proven to actually help those in need: charity rooted in love. --from publisher description." . . "Helping the poor is a question central to American life. Partially driven by America's Judeo-Christian heritage, Americans believe we possess enough wealth to provide some minimum basic standard of living for all and genuinely desire to help the least among us. We are the most generous nation on earth, spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually through private giving, corporate philanthropy, government aid, and other forms of charity. And yet, despite these efforts, international and domestic poverty persist.<span."@en . . . "From prophecy to charity : how to help the poor" . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . "From prophecy to charity how to help the poor"@en . . . . . . "Sozialpolitik" . .