Financial education for social workers

Journal of Community Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 9-36

  Sherraden, Margaret ^a   Laux, Sharon ^a   Kaufman, Cassandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b University of Missouri ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Financial education; Financial management; Social work education

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249152169     PISSN: 10705422     EISSN: 15433706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J125v15n03_02     Document Type: Article

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