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Lifting Up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty and Welfare Reform (Pew Forum Dialogue Series on Religion and Public Life) by Mary Jo Bane, Lawrence M. Mead Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-8157-0791-6 / 0815707916 ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-0791-2 / 9780815707912 People who participate in debates about the causes and cures of poverty often speak from religious conviction. But those convictions are rarely made explicit or debated on their own terms. Rarely is the influence of personal religious commitment on policy decisions examined. Two of the nation's f |