Fixing a Leaky U.S. Social Safety Net: Diapers, Policy, and Low-Income Families

Jennifer Randles

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.08

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 5 166-183

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.08

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online July 26, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Randles, Jennifer. “Fixing a Leaky U.S. Social Safety Net: Diapers, Policy, and Low-Income Families.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(5): 166–83. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.08. I am grateful to editors Marcia J. Carlson, Christopher Wimer, and Ron Haskins, anonymous reviewers, and colleagues Jennifer Sherman, Jennifer Utrata, and Kerry Woodward for feedback on earlier versions of this manuscript. The manuscript also benefited from constructive feedback from attendees at the April 2021 RSF Conference “Low-Income Families in the 21st Century: Effective Public Policy Responses.” This research was funded by the American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline supported by the National Science Foundation. Direct correspondence to: Jennifer Randles, at jrandles@csufresno.edu, 5340 N. Campus Drive M/S SS97, Fresno, CA 93740-8019, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.