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The invisible safety net : protecting the nation's poor children and families / Janet M. Currie.
LIBRA HV95 .C86 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Currie, Janet M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Poor children--Services for.
- Poor children.
- Poor families.
- United States.
- Poor--Government policy--United States.
- Poor.
- Poor--Government policy.
- Poor families--Services for--United States.
- Poor children--Services for--United States.
- Child welfare--United States.
- Child welfare.
- United States--Social policy--1993-.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- 203 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Welfare vs. "Making Work Pay" 11
- Chapter 2 In Sickness and in Health: The Importance of Public Health Insurance 33
- Chapter 3 Feeding the Hungry: Food Stamps, School Nutrition Programs, and WIC 61
- Chapter 4 Home Sweet Home? 90
- Chapter 5 Who's Minding the Kids? 113
- Chapter 6 Defending and Mending the Safety Net 139.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-195) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691122687
- OCLC:
- 61362203
- Publisher Number:
- 9780691122687
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