# Sweet Charity?

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- Book: [Sweet Charity?](https://www.bookquiver.com/janet-poppendieck/sweet-charity) ([Sweet Charity?.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/janet-poppendieck/sweet-charity.md))
- Authors: [Janet Poppendieck](https://www.bookquiver.com/janet-poppendieck)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4024-556-1
- Pages: 368
- Published: 1999-08-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

How the drive to end poverty has taken a wrong turn with thousands of well-meaning volunteers on board In this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private...