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Severe Deprivation in America: An Introduction
Matthew Desmond
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2015, 1 (1) 1-11; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.01
Matthew Desmond
aAssociate professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
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