Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America
- ISBN-10
- 0385475330
- ISBN-13
- 9780385475334
- Series
- Common Purpose
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 482
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Anchor Books
- Author
- Lisbeth B. Schorr
Description
Shows how many current social programs are successfully addressing such inner-city problems as child abuse, school failure, teenage pregnancy, and welfare dependency
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- 2011-04-27
- 512 pages
- Ebook
- Anchor
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- 2010-03-01
- 240 pages
- Paperback
- Jossey-Bass
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- 2010-01-29
- 254 pages
- Paperback
- Jossey-Bass
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- 1997
- 482 pages
- Paperback
- Anchor Books, Doubleday
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