"It's great when people don't even have their welfare cases opened": TANF diversion as process and lesson

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 725-743

  Ridzi, Frank ^a   London, Andrew S ^b  

^a LE MOYNE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE REFORM;

EID: 33646675849     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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