How Best To Help The Poor Acquire Prosperity

"I think the best way of doing good to the poor,
is not making them easy in poverty, but by leading or
driving them out of it."

                                        
   - Benjamin Franklin,
 Signer of both the Declaration of Independence  and of the                                                     Constitution, who was also a farmer, inventor, and philanthropist,

"On the Price of Corn and the Management of the Poor", 1766

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