Research ArticleII. Extreme Poverty and Social Suffering
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When There Is No Welfare: The Income Packaging Strategies of Mothers Without Earnings or Cash Assistance Following an Economic Downturn
Kristin S. Seefeldt, Heather Sandstrom
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2015, 1 (1) 139-158; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.08
Kristin S. Seefeldt
aAssistant professor of social work at the University of Michigan
Heather Sandstrom
bSenior research associate at the Urban Institute
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Kristin S. Seefeldt, Heather Sandstrom
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Nov 2015, 1 (1) 139-158; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.08
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