Keeping the show on the road: Female-headed families surviving on $22,000 a year or less in New York City

Urban Anthropology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-152

  Francis Okongwu, Anne ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE-HEADED FAMILY; LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLD; RACIAL DISCRIMINATION; URBAN ECONOMY; WELFARE PROVISION;

USA, NEW YORK, NEW YORK;

EID: 0030467428     PISSN: 08946019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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