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Jacob A. Riis’s 1892 social-reform study The Children of the Poor

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Children, urban poverty, education, citizenship, housing, public responsibility and Progressive-era reform argument.

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The problem of the children is the problem of the State.

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“The problem of the children is the problem of the State.”

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Riis frames the treatment and prospects of children as a public responsibility rather than merely a private household concern.

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The Children of the Poor, opening chapter, represented by Project Gutenberg #32609. The sentence is Riis’s Progressive-era social-reform argument; surrounding observations and statistics belong to their historical setting and are not presented as current policy data.

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