America Gone Wrong: A Slashed Safety Net Turns Libraries into Homeless Shelters
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Chip Ward recently retired as the assistant director of the Salt Lake City Public Library System to devote more time to political activism and writing. He's the author of Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West and Hope's Horizon: Three Visions for Healing the American Land.
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