Diverging fortunes: Trends in poverty and inequality

The American People: Census 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 49-75

  Danziger, Sheldon ^a   Gottschalk, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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