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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 -- Our Treatment of Sick Emigrants. -- Pauperism in the State of New-York - Startling Facts. -- Pauperism in England. -- Government Charities. -- Public Gratitude to Soldiers and Sailors - National Homes and Asylums -- Pauperism. -- Woman's Influence on Public Charities. -- Public and Private Charities. -- Connecticut's Paupers. -- CHAPTER 2 -- Matters We Ought to Know. -- Poverty Rated a Crime -- Common Sense in Good Work - to Elevate the Poor by Means of 'Settlements.' -- Charity as a Teuton Sees It -- Shall We Pension Destitute Widows and Children? -- Pension Systems That Stabilize the Worker -- Worker's Compensation -- CHAPTER 3 -- Says America Lags in Insuring Worker -- To Cut Farm Surpluses -- The Gigantic Task of Winter Relief -- Health Insurance Cited as Real Need -- Hopkins Envisions New Era in Relief -- In Washington: Roosevelt, Long or Townsend -- Basic Idea Behind Social Security Program -- Food Scrip to Lift Sales 250 Million -- CHAPTER 4 -- Johnson Pledges Great Society -- Will Visit 4 Needy Areas Today -- Senate Votes Permanent Food Stamp Program to Improve Diet of Needy -- Washington Should Pay Taxes to the Poor -- It Isn't True That Nobody Starves in America -- He Proposes a New Way of Helping the Poor -- Universal Health Insurance Is Urged -- CHAPTER 5 -- From Pledge to Plan: The Campaign to End Welfare -- A Question of Numbers -- The Future of Not Working -- How Medicare for All Would Affect You -- Glossary -- Media Literacy Terms -- Media Literacy Questions -- Citations -- Index -- Back Cover.