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  • Subject is exactly "poverty"

Addams discusses the problems that charity workers face when they bring middle-class assumptions about the poor to their efforts to practically help them.

Women argue against setting a weekly salary of $2,50 because it was not sufficient to health and well-being.

Newspaper coverage of Addams' November 19 address to the Chicago Business Woman's Club linking child labor to laziness in adults.

Addams discusses the need to understand the poor in order to solve the problems of poverty.

A 28-page illustrated pamphlet outlining the work and social conditions of newsboys and newsgirls, based on a two-day intensive investigation. In it the Committee proposes revisions in child labor laws to curb the worst excesses.

Addams describes how a man can support his family on $12 per week.

Also known as Address to the Catholic Women's League, November 7, 1903 (excerpts)

Addams speaks to the Catholic Women's League about the ways the poor are harmed by unthinking charitable efforts.

Addams lays out the expansion of Hull-House programs and buildings from 1890 to 1905.

Rayborn asks Addams and Robins for assistance in finding a job and getting him and his family out of poverty.

Addams describes the poverty of the Hull-House neighborhood in the early days of her work there. She discusses the lack of security and loneliness of the elderly, as well as child labor.

Sigsbee compliments Addams on her article in American Magazine and comments on the relationship between poverty and crime.

Palmer asks Addams to help her discover the true circumstances of an impoverished family member living in Chicago.

The author sympathizes with the McNamara brothers, who bombed the Los Angeles Times building in California in October 1910, because they were insane but criticizes the Chicago newspapers for responding with bigotry against the Irish community.

Addams' speech to the National Federation of Settlements on the impact of poverty, reprinted in shortened form in the conference proceedings.

Addams tells the story of two immigrant women's difficulties making enough to earn a living, their experiences with unions, and poverty.

Addams prepared some cases of poverty that she did not use on the Devil Baby at Hull-House article.

Tunnicliff and Jahn call an emergency meeting to help ration diminished coal supplies throughout Chicago.

Mrs. L.R. Dahlem asks Jane Addams to help out a poor, large family.

Addams discusses John Dewey's work for social welfare at a celebration of his birthday in New York.

Addams discusses John Dewey's work for social welfare at a celebration of his birthday in New York.

Addams offers praise of John Dewey' and his work for social welfare, criminal justice reform, education, and peace. The speech was given on October 19, as part of a seventieth birthday celebration in New York and published in the Survey.

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