After the revolution: Welfare patterns since TANF implementation

Social Work Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 199-214

  Cancian, Maria ^a   Meyer, Daniel R ^b   Wu, Chi Fang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Poverty; Single mothers; Social policy; TANF; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444449341     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/29.4.199     Document Type: Article

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