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America’s Broken Safety Net—and How to Address It: An Interview with Alissa Quart

NonProfit Quarterly

By the end of it, I was asking myself: “Why do people think poverty is their fault? A lot of nonprofits put on do-it-yourself, taped together programs that have this orientation of a dystopian social safety net. We are here supporting reporters and photographers because publications are no longer doing it. They recognized it.