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book cover image for Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century, ISBN=9781610448628Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781610448628
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation
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book cover image for Blaming the Poor: The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty, ISBN=9780813574165Blaming the Poor: The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty
ISBN: 9780813574165
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press
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book cover image for Coping With Poverty, ISBN=9780472023585Coping With Poverty
ISBN: 9780472023585
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Michigan Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Inner cities; African American families; Urban policy; African Americans; African Americans; Urban poor; African Americans;
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book cover image for Coping With Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community, ISBN=9780472023585Coping With Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community
ISBN: 9780472023585
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press
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book cover image for Dining at the Lineman''s Shack, ISBN=9780816536979Dining at the Lineman''s Shack
ISBN: 9780816536979
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Arizona Press
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Subjects: Poor families; Cooking; Depressions; Novelists American; Novelists American;
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book cover image for Imagined Orphans, ISBN=9780813541020Imagined Orphans
ISBN: 9780813541020
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Rutgers University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Poor families; Poor families; Poor children; Poor children; Child welfare; Child welfare;
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book cover image for Imagined orphans: poor families, child welfare, and contested citizenship in London, ISBN=9780813537221Imagined orphans: poor families, child welfare, and contested citizenship in London
ISBN: 9780813537221
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / Rutgers University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: European: 1400-1800;
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book cover image for Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London, ISBN=9780813541020Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London
ISBN: 9780813541020
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press
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book cover image for It''s Not Like I''m Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World, ISBN=9780520959224It''s Not Like I''m Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World
ISBN: 9780520959224
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press
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book cover image for Jobs Aren''t Enough, ISBN=9781592133574Jobs Aren''t Enough
ISBN: 9781592133574
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Temple University Press
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Subjects: Social mobility; City dwellers; Poor families; Working class;
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book cover image for Jobs Aren''t Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families, ISBN=9781592133574Jobs Aren''t Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families
ISBN: 9781592133574
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press
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book cover image for Life After Welfare, ISBN=9780292794979Life After Welfare
ISBN: 9780292794979
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Texas Press
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Subjects: Poor families; Public welfare;
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book cover image for Life After Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty, ISBN=9780292794979Life After Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty
ISBN: 9780292794979
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Texas Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Public welfare -- Texas; Poor families -- Texas;
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book cover image for Long Shadow, The: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood, ISBN=9781610448239Long Shadow, The: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
ISBN: 9781610448239
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation
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book cover image for Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better: Forward-Looking Policies to Help Low-Income Families, ISBN=9781610446440Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better: Forward-Looking Policies to Help Low-Income Families
ISBN: 9781610446440
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation
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Subjects: Working poor -- Government policy -- United States; Poor families -- Government policy -- United States;
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book cover image for Moving Working Families Forward: Third Way Policies That Can Work, ISBN=9780814769904Moving Working Families Forward: Third Way Policies That Can Work
ISBN: 9780814769904
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press
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book cover image for Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, ISBN=9780813158211Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
ISBN: 9780813158211
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The University Press of Kentucky
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Rural families; Poor families; Poor women; Widows;
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book cover image for Old Assumptions, New Realities: Ensuring Economic Security for Working Families in the 21st Century, ISBN=9781610447218Old Assumptions, New Realities: Ensuring Economic Security for Working Families in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781610447218
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation
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Subjects: Working poor -- United States; Social security -- United States; United States -- Social policy -- 21st century;
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book cover image for Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives, ISBN=9780815704201Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives
ISBN: 9780815704201
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Brookings Institution Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Economic assistance Domestic; Poverty; Poor; Poverty; Saving and investment;
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book cover image for Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives: Assets and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2004, ISBN=9780815704201Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives: Assets and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2004
ISBN: 9780815704201
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press
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book cover image for Partnerships for Prevention: The Story of the Highfield Community Enrichment Project, ISBN=9781442678286Partnerships for Prevention: The Story of the Highfield Community Enrichment Project
ISBN: 9781442678286
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
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book cover image for Philosophy and Child Poverty : Reflections on the Ethics and Politics of Poor Children and Their Families, ISBN=9783030224523Philosophy and Child Poverty : Reflections on the Ethics and Politics of Poor Children and Their Families
ISBN: 9783030224523
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Springer International Publishing AG
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Philosophy;
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book cover image for Poor Families in America''s Health Care Crisis, ISBN=9780511499548Poor Families in America''s Health Care Crisis
ISBN: 9780511499548
Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Cambridge University Press
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book cover image for Proposing Prosperity?: Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America, ISBN=9780231543170Proposing Prosperity?: Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America
ISBN: 9780231543170
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
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book cover image for Sabbath Creek, ISBN=9780820340579Sabbath Creek
ISBN: 9780820340579
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Georgia Press
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Subjects: Mothers and sons; Fathers; Poor families; Boys;
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book cover image for Sabbath Creek: A Novel, ISBN=9780820340579Sabbath Creek: A Novel
ISBN: 9780820340579
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Boys -- Fiction; Poor families -- Fiction; Fathers -- Death -- Fiction; Mothers and sons -- Fiction; Georgia -- Fiction;
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book cover image for Stretched Thin, ISBN=9780801459085Stretched Thin
ISBN: 9780801459085
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Social workers; Poor families; Welfare recipients; Public welfare administration; Public welfare;
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book cover image for Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform, ISBN=9780801459085Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform
ISBN: 9780801459085
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
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book cover image for Striving to Save: Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families, ISBN=9780472021819Striving to Save: Creating Policies for Financial Security of Low-Income Families
ISBN: 9780472021819
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Individual development accounts; Poor -- Finance Personal;
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book cover image for The Financial Diaries, ISBN=9781400884599The Financial Diaries
ISBN: 9781400884599
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Princeton University Press
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book cover image for The Invisible Safety Net, ISBN=9781400826995The Invisible Safety Net
ISBN: 9781400826995
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Princeton University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Child welfare; Poor children; Poor families; Poor; Public welfare;
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book cover image for The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation''s Poor Children and Families, ISBN=9781400826995The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation''s Poor Children and Families
ISBN: 9781400826995
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press
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book cover image for The Sweet Everlasting: A Novel, ISBN=9780820340135The Sweet Everlasting: A Novel
ISBN: 9780820340135
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Boys -- Fiction; Georgia -- Fiction; Poor families -- Fiction; Fathers -- Death -- Fiction; Mothers and sons -- Fiction;
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book cover image for The War on Welfare, ISBN=9780812201567The War on Welfare
ISBN: 9780812201567
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Aid to families with dependent children programs; Welfare recipients; Poor women; Public welfare;
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book cover image for The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America, ISBN=9780812201567The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America
ISBN: 9780812201567
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
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book cover image for Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families: From Distress to Hope, ISBN=9781315043463Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families: From Distress to Hope
ISBN: 9781315043463
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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book cover image for Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children, ISBN=9780812201451Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children
ISBN: 9780812201451
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Working class families; Poor families; Child welfare; Family social work;
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book cover image for Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, ISBN=9780812201451Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
ISBN: 9780812201451
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
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book cover image for White, Poor and Angry: White Working Class Families in Johannesburg, ISBN=9781315190990White, Poor and Angry: White Working Class Families in Johannesburg
ISBN: 9781315190990
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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book cover image for Women in the American Welfare Trap, ISBN=9780812202465Women in the American Welfare Trap
ISBN: 9780812202465
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
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book cover image for Women, Families and the British Army 1700–1880, ISBN=9781003011484Women, Families and the British Army 1700–1880
ISBN: 9781003011484
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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book cover image for Women, Families and the British Army 1700–1880, ISBN=9781003017974Women, Families and the British Army 1700–1880
ISBN: 9781003017974
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Humanities; Gender and Sexuality; Family and Demography; Agencies and Institutions; Class and Work; Health and Welfare; States of Mind; Recreation and Consumption; Race and Empire; Rural and Urban Life; Crime and Punishment; History; The Home; National State; Death and Dying; Poverty; Family; Political Beliefs and Ideologies; Sex; Medical Care; Rational Recreation; Shops and Shopping; Slavery; Communications; Gender Roles and Stereotypes; Welfare; Social Groups; Standards of Living; Public Health; Morbidity and Disease; Marriage; Philanthropy; Life Cycle; Entertainment; Religious Denominations; Local State; Punishments; Crimes; Transport; British History; Social & Cultural History; Armed Forces; Hospitals; Widows and Widowers; Museums and Galleries; Advertising; Freed Slaves; Working Classes; Femininity; Living Conditions; Housing; Poor Relief; Childhood; Theatre; Orphans and Adoption; Workhouses; Poor law; Imprisonment; Asylums;

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book cover image for Women, Families and the British Army, 1700–1880 Vol 4, ISBN=9781003017950Women, Families and the British Army, 1700–1880 Vol 4
ISBN: 9781003017950
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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book cover image for Women, Families and the British Army, 1700–1880 Vol 6, ISBN=9781003017981Women, Families and the British Army, 1700–1880 Vol 6
ISBN: 9781003017981
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Humanities; Agencies and Institutions; Family and Demography; States of Mind; Recreation and Consumption; Health and Welfare; Crime and Punishment; Race and Empire; Class and Work; Gender and Sexuality; History; National State; Family; Political Beliefs and Ideologies; Shops and Shopping; Courtship; Marriage; Varieties of Religious Belief ; Medical Care; Punishments; Rational Recreation; Death and Dying; The British Diaspora; The Legal System; Local State; Religious Denominations; Empire at Home; Welfare; Education; Poverty; Sex; Morbidity and Disease; British History; Social & Cultural History; Armed Forces; Advertising; Hospitals; Imprisonment; Museums and Galleries; Mortality Rate; School Medical Service; Suicide; Policing ; Poor law; Roman Catholicism; Refugees; Orphans and Adoption; Widows and Widowers; Poor Relief; Prostitution;

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book cover image for Working with Families of the Poor, ISBN=9781593856328Working with Families of the Poor
ISBN: 9781593856328
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Guilford Publications
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Social Science;
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