Economic success among TANF participants: How we measure it matters
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Research indeed offers some evidence that different measures may not be identical. For example, material hardship does not appear to be strongly correlated with poverty in the United States or in Europe. The evidence is, however, somewhat contradictory. One study found that low-wage working mothers experienced higher levels of hardship than welfare recipients, but others have found that those who work more in fact have lower levels of hardship.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004