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Changing Work, Changing Families, and Public Policies Toward Low-Income Families

Marcia J. Carlson, Christopher Wimer, Ron Haskins
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2022, 8 (5) 1-22; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.01
Marcia J. Carlson
aProfessor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
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Christopher Wimer
bDirector of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University’s School of Social Work, New York, United States
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Ron Haskins
cSenior fellow emeritus in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, United States
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