From In These Times: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/14034/a_poverty_of_empathy/ The GOP’s social welfare philosophy dates back to 1818. BY Maggie Garb October 16, 2012 In 1818, the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, New York’s first anti-poverty organization, issued a report advocating the need to relieve “the community from the pecuniary exactions, the multiplied exactions, and threatening dangers” associated [...]![]()
