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Article: Charitable Choice As Neoliberal Social Welfare Strategy.
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- Social Justice
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- March 22, 2001
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True compassion means suffering with the poor and acting on the consciousness of your suffering -- and we should shift power away from the bureaucracy to the people in the compassionate community, who actually deal with these problems.
-- Jeb Bush (in Olasky, 2000: 13).
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