How poorly are the poor represented in the U.S. Senate?

Who Gets Represented?

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 223-246

  Bhatti, Yosef ^a   Erikson, Robert S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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