Lessons from New Hope: The impact on children's well-being of a work-based antipoverty program for parents

For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 179-200

  Mistry, Rashmita S ^a   Crosby, Danielle A ^b   Huston, Aletha C ^b   Casey, David M ^c   Ripke, Marika N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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