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How did Jacob Riis’s book, How the Other Half Lives, affect the urban poor?

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How did Jacob Riis influence others? His book, How the Other Half Lives (1890), stimulated the first significant New York legislation to curb poor conditions in tenement housing. It was also an important predecessor to muckraking journalism, which took shape in the United States after 1900.

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