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Posted on October 26, 2009August 27, 2024

On giving money to social services “clients”

I ran across this essay and thought it might be of interest to Enough readers.  Calvin discusses the ethical dilemmas of being a social service provider to poor and homeless people and the pressure to set up professional boundaries and not share money with clients. Continue reading “On giving money to social services “clients””

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Enough is a space for conversations about how a commitment to wealth redistribution plays out in our lives: how we decide what to have, what to keep, what to give away; how we work together to build sustainable grassroots movements; how we challenge capitalism in daily, revolutionary ways.

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