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New Findings on Welfare and Children's Development Summary of a Research Briefing (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Welfare reform is taking place across the United States
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... The basic strategy of guaranteeing benefits to eligib [e poor American families has changed from one that was originally designed to enable single mothers to stay home with their children to one that requires those mothers to work. The Personal Responsibility anc!
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