Food pantries and soup kitchens have been struggling to serve the growing number of welfare reform casualties. Now this largely volunteer system is picking up social services where government left off–and considering a strategic retreat.
A book review of Global Squeeze: The Coming Crisis for First-World Nations, By Richard C. Longworth, Contemporary Books, 1998, 293 pages, $24.95.
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