Fraternal societies and mutual-aid societies kept the poor afloat long before the welfare state.
David T. Beito
70 Year Magazine Archive
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David T. Beito is a research fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif., and professor emeritus in history at the University of Alabama. He is the author of the forthcoming book The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.
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