Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walked upstream, the PBH leadership recognizes the need to address society's ills on two fronts. A real solution must change the system that is producing homelessness and illiteracy in the first place. And the only way to change the system is to say when it is wrong...
...continued to scan the article I began to have an uneasy sense that something was wrong. First of all the name of Ehrenreich sounded vaguely familiar. Then I realized--why, Ehrenreich! That's me! Why hadn't I recognized myself...
THERE is nothing wrong with promoting awareness and discussion of public policy among PBHA volunteers. But PBHA's leadership has gone beyond political discourse. The cabinet of PBHA recently endorsed an electoral position. And last February, as Ehrenreich wrote in The Independent, the cabinet granted themselves the option to consider endorsing candidates for public office. PBHA should do neither...
Ehrenreich says PBHA will make up for the loss by gaining "respect." Wrong. Respect--and moral authority--are accorded to those humanitarian organizations which remain scrupulously apolitical, such as Amnesty International and the American Red Cross...
EHRENREICH'S argues that PBHA should become more political because "poverty is wrong," and "that is a fundamentally political observation...