The Public Interest

How social problems are born

Nathan Glazer

Spring 1994

HOW DO WE get more attention, more public action, for a problem we consider important?  More important, how do we get the right kind of public attention and action, right in scale, and right in the kinds of” solutions the public is willing to accept and fund? 

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