The growing problem of disconnected single mothers

Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better: Forward-Looking Policies to Help Low-Income Families

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 227-258

  Blank, Rebecca M ^a   Kovak, Brian K ^b  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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