Welfare recipients: How do they become independent?

Social Work Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 159-170

  Cheng, Tyrone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Dependency; Self reliance; Supplementation; Welfare recipients

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038897457     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/26.3.159     Document Type: Article

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