The Color Of Welfare Sanctioning: Exploring The Individual And Contextual Roles Of Race On Tanf Case Closures And Benefit Reductions

Sociological Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 678-707

  Monnat, Shannon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; FAMILY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; RACE RELATIONS; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 78651477438     PISSN: 00380253     EISSN: 15338525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2010.01188.x     Document Type: Article

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