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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 (3) 1-19; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.3.01
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, 3420 Social Sciences Building, 1180 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI 53706
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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, 3436 Social Sciences Building, 1180 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI 53706
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Katherine Magnuson
cVilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and doctoral program chair at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Social Work, 3432 Social Sciences Building, 1180 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI 53706
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