Effect of Lifetime Limits and Differences between TANF Leavers Who Had Reached Their Lifetime Limits and Those Who Had Exited Voluntarily

Poverty and Public Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 27-48

  Lee, Kyoung Hag ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

employment; family income; lifetime limits; TANF leavers; welfare reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 85055408934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-2858.1072     Document Type: Article

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