Beyond the safety net: Supporting the economic security of working-poor families

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 261-291

  Meyers, Marcia K ^a   Gornick, Janet C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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