The likelihood of poverty across the American adult life span

Social Work

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 201-216

  Rank, Mark R ^a   Hirschl, Thomas A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Life span; Poverty; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000486691     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/44.3.201     Document Type: Article

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