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Certainly not a welfare state

January 14, 2010

Opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer by Spencer Rand, a clinical assistant professor at Temple University's Beasley School of Law, who, with his students, represents clients through the Temple Legal Aid Office, on the subsistence levels provided to the needy in Pennsylvania.

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