Framing U.S. Redistributive Policies: Tough Love for Poor Women and Tax Cuts for Seniors

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-83

  Limbert, Wendy M ^a   Bullock, Heather E ^b  

^a University of California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TAX SYSTEM; WELFARE IMPACT; WOMENS STATUS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950767222     PISSN: 15297489     EISSN: 15302415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2009.01189.x     Document Type: Article

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