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You shouldn’t. And you won’t.
When a child in a low-income area is five years old, we do all we can to help. Often we fail. Then, 20 poverty-filled and educationally-deprived years later, we call that same child a leech and a welfare chiseler.
—Mary Sheahen, Psychiatric Social Worker and Pastoral Counselor, at family dinner table, Derwood, Maryland, August 1981
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Melvin J. Lerner, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Waterloo between 1970 and 1994 and now a visiting scholar at Florida Atlantic University, The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion, Critical Issues in Social Justice (Springer Publishing, September 30, 1980).
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Sheahen, A. (2012). Why Should I Work to Support Welfare Chiselers?. In: Basic Income Guarantee. Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137031594_10
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