Mother, worker, welfare recipient: Welfare reform and the multiple roles of low-income women

Coping with Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 201-223

  Kalil, Ariel ^a   Schweingruber, Heidi ^b   Daniel Echols, Marijata ^d   Breen, Ashli ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d NONE

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