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The Role of Religion in the American Economy
In 1879, Henry George wrote his famous book called Progress in Poverty. By the 1880s, 1890s, people understood that no, that wasn't right. You can have progress with a lot of poverty. A new movement then emerged within the American Protestant churches called the Social Gospel Movement. They thought there was a role for the government to do something about it.