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How Did Jane Addams Influence Social Work

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Jane Addams in most famously known for her making of the Hull House in Chicago. The Hull house was the first settlement house in Chicago and it provided services to underprivileged people. Jane Addams helped establish social welfare and social work through her contributions to Franklin’s New Deal. Addams did much more than that. Jane Addams was also an organizer for the labor unions, an early feminist who understood the importance of equality, an author, and a noble peace prize winner. Jane Addams saw that we as a nation had large problems when it came to poverty and unfairness. It was unseen to most Americans so she created social reforms and forced these issues to be more seen by the public eye. I will discuss how Adams became a social worker,

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