Welfare Reform Amidst Chronic Poverty in the Mississippi Delta

Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue , 2006, Pages 381-403

  Lee, M A ^a   Singelmann, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Baton Rouge; Local Labor Market; Metro Area; Mississippi Delta; Welfare Reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145037967     PISSN: 18772560     EISSN: 22151990     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3902-6_18     Document Type: Chapter

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