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“I Could Be Unemployed the Rest of the Year”: Unprecedented Times and the Challenges of “Making More”

Alexandrea J. Ravenelle, Savannah Knoble
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences May 2023, 9 (3) 110-131; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.05
Alexandrea J. Ravenelle
aAssistant professor in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
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bAdministrative project coordinator at North Carolina for Community and Justice, United States
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