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Assessing the Potential Impacts of Innovative New Policy Proposals on Poverty in the United States

Christopher Wimer, Sophie Collyer, Sara Kimberlin
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (3) 167-183; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.3.09
Christopher Wimer
aCo-director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10028.
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Sophie Collyer
aCo-director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10028.
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Sara Kimberlin
aCo-director of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10028.
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