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The program that paid Favre wasn't paying poor people in the first place.

Stealing from the poor!. Religious Pastor or Republican politician? it’s really hard to tell!

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(via Attention 1916 Shoppers: The Doctor Is In - The New York Times)

"Welfare services for department store workers began with John Wanamaker, a brickmaker’s son born in 1838 who turned a struggling Philadelphia haberdashery into a department store empire built on creative advertising and selling strategies. But Wanamaker was not just focused on making money. He wanted to keep his workers healthy and happy, and so in an era of rapacious capitalism, child labor and male privilege he introduced half-day-Saturdays off, medical benefits and a retirement system. He made sure that the store abided by Pennsylvania’s ban on hiring of boys younger than 13.

His competitors soon followed with medical facilities, employee exercise and lunchrooms, educational training, vacation programs and medical clinics.

The health and welfare innovations grew out of efforts in the 1880s to improve working conditions for women, especially those in the retail trade. By 1891 the Consumers League of New York City was documenting abusive conditions on the selling floor and soon began publishing a “White List” of stores with visionary welfare policies like compensated overtime, paid vacations and — way back then — “equal pay for work of equal value, irrespective of sex.” Arnold Constable & Co., Best & Co., Stern Brothers, and Wanamaker’s made the 1896 list of 31, up from an initial eight, along with some familiar names that are still around."

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