#  Mary Jo Bane 

Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, Emerita

 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Homepage](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/mary-jo-bane) 

 

 



 

   
*Research interests*: Poverty, welfare, families, the role of churches in civic life.



 

 

 





 

 

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