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Charles Idelson

Charles Idelson is the Communications Director for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.

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Jonathan Swift's America
In 1729 writer/satirist Jonathan Swift penned an essay directed toward the English upper class suggesting a solution for how to prevent the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to the country and empire and “for making them beneficial to the public.” “I have been assured,” Swift...
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