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Anti-poverty Policy Innovations: New Proposals for Addressing Poverty in the United States
Lawrence M. Berger, Maria Cancian, Katherine Magnuson
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 1-19; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.01
Lawrence M. Berger
aVilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the School of Social Work and director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Maria Cancian
bProfessor of public affairs and social work and former director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Katherine Magnuson
cVilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and doctoral program chair at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Social Work
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