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Families in Poverty
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Families in Poverty Paperback - 2007

by Ferguson, Susan J., Seccombe, Karen

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  • Title Families in Poverty
  • Author Ferguson, Susan J., Seccombe, Karen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 212
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pearson Education, Limited, New York
  • Date 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 12520212-6
  • ISBN 9780205502547 / 0205502547
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 7.1 x 0.58 in (23.32 x 18.03 x 1.47 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Poverty - United States, Family - Economic aspects - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006050068
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.850

From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-206) and index.

About the author

Karen Seccombe, Ph.D./MSW, is a sociologist and Professor of Community Health at Portland State University, whose research focuses on social stratification and family sociology. Her work on the health and well-being of poor families, and on the affect of U.S. health and welfare policies, appears frequently in leading social science journals. She is the author of several other books including "So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?" Welfare Recipients' Perspective on the System and Its Reform, Second Edition (Allyn and Bacon, 2007), Families and their Social Worlds (Allyn & Bacon, 2008), and (with K. Hoffman) Just Don't Get Sick: Access to Health Care in the Aftermath of Welfare Reform (Rutgers University Press, 2007).

The "Families in the 21st Century" Series Editor is Susan Ferguson, Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. Her own research interests include the never-married and women's health issues. She is the author of Shifting the Center: Understanding Contemporary Families, 3/e (McGraw-Hill, 2007).

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