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Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973 (Updated Edition) by Martha F. Davis Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-300-06424-1 / 0300064241 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-06424-7 / 9780300064247 During the 1960s a new breed of "poverty lawyers"—in collaboration with welfare recipient activists—mounted a legal campaign to create a constitutional right to welfare. The collaboration worked significant changes in the social welfare system of the United States and in the scope of individual cons |