Girls Solve Everything by Catherine Thimmesh

Author:Catherine Thimmesh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

Perhaps most significantly, Jane and the Hull-House residents listened and learned from their neighbors—most of them immigrants, most poverty-stricken. The Hull-House women became advocates for their neighbors—first investigating problems and gathering facts and data, then working to change laws and to affect public policy and programs. They tackled sanitation issues, truancy, infant mortality, drug use, minimum wages, labor rights, child-labor laws, and reliable, available public services.

“The Settlement [. . .] constantly acts between the various institutions of the city and the people for whose benefit these institutions were erected,” wrote Jane. “Another function of the Settlement to its neighborhood resembles that of the big brother whose mere presence on the playground protects the little one from bullies.”

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