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Reforming Policy for Single-Parent Families to Reduce Child Poverty

Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 91-112; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.05
Maria Cancian
aProfessor of public affairs and social work and affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
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bProfessor of social work and affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
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