The Poor You Will Have with You Always ((ISBN: 978-0-9623634-0-5) is designed to help readers acquire a conceptual background for practice with people who are poor, together with a sense of the history, not only of the social work profession but of human compassion as a whole. It traces the thinking, Christian and secular, that has been behind society's treatment of poor people throughout the centuries in the Western world, from the Old Testament's concern with justice, to American welfare polices in the 1980s; from the writings of the early church Fathers to contemporary articles in professional journals. (ISBN: 9780962363405)