The decline of cash welfare and implications for social policy and poverty

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2010, Pages 523-545

  Danziger, Sandra K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

employment; public assistance; single mother families

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955594298     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.012809.102644     Document Type: Article

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