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disalitervisum

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4. Just Google "Reagan releases mental patients" if you want

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Mar 6, 2017, 06:59 AM

Mar 2017

some insight into the root causes of increasing crime, violence, and homelessness over the last forty years. There are many excellent articles from which to choose, but the best by far is this one:

"Ronald Reagan and the Commitment of the Mentally Ill: Capital, Interest Groups, and the Eclipse of Social Policy."

www.sociology.org/content/vol003.004/thomas.html|

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Maine's largest city considers giving jobs to panhandlers [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2017 OP

It took this long for them to figure this out? Doreen Mar 2017 #1

Truth and Truth! iluvtennis Mar 2017 #3

I'm glad connecting them with social services is part of the plan TexasBushwhacker Mar 2017 #2

Just Google "Reagan releases mental patients" if you want disalitervisum Mar 2017 #4

Funny, just telling my daughter about the number of panhandlers that showed rgbecker Mar 2017 #5