Women Who Succeeded in Leaving Public Assistance for a Living-wage Job

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 309-326

  Gray, Karen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

living wage job; poverty; Project QUEST; welfare reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248609190     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325005055598     Document Type: Article

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