How families are doing nine years after welfare reform: 2005 evidence from the three-city study

Welfare Reform and its Long-Term Consequences for America's Poor

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 140-171

  Frogner, Bianca ^a   Moffitt, Robert ^b   Ribar, David C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

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EID: 80051584966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511605383.006     Document Type: Chapter

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