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Article: The down and out are headed up in Nashville. (welfare program in Nashville, TN)(Cover Story)
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- The American Enterprise
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Spend any time talking to poverty-fighters in Nashville and two facts stand out. First, Tennessee's welfare rolls have been reduced by nearly a third over two years. Second, for poor people who want to become independent, many people in government, industry, and nonprofits are willing to assist them.
Nashville's poor have changed over time. The Reverend Carl Resener, director of the Nashville Union Rescue Mission, began ministering to the destitute in 1957. The typical person then seeking aid was a white male alcoholic in his mid-fifties who earned some money in the summers picking strawberries or tobacco but needed shelter during cold weather, while drying ...
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