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Tom Corbett

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Tom Corbett is emeritus Senior Scientist and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he served as Associate and Acting Director for a decade before his retirement. He received a Doctorate in Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin and taught various social policy and program evaluation courses there for many years. During his long academic and policy career, he worked with governments at all levels including a stint in Washington D.C. where he helped develop President Clinton’s welfare reform legislation. He has written dozens of articles and reports on poverty, social policy, and human services issues and given hundreds of talks across the nation on these topics. In additi ...more

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Welcome. My name is Tom Corbett, Ph.D., author of Browsing Through My Candy Store and Ouch, Now I Remember. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new books. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here.


I’ll be using this blog to interact with you about Browsing Through My Candy Store and Ouch, Now I Remember, expanding on some of

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Published on October 28, 2015 20:09
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Casual Choices

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Ordinary Obsessions

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Palpable Passions

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Tenuous Tendrils

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message 1: by Meran

Meran Hi Tom!
Your resume is very impressive indeed. On your "friend me" request, you mention sending me one of your books for my perusal. After reading your short biography, I'm curious as to which of your books you thought would interest me.
I'm very much into social change, change that is very much needed. I was one of those truly flabbergasted when the person who had no business being president won.
I see that he's definitely changing things, but am finding that the changes look much more like catastrophes.... changes more like Hurricane Maria than curing bad tax laws,,, or cancer.

Thanks for finding me! (How did you find me? And why me?)

Meran


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