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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Available online.
"Sandra Polaski examines the role of a Doha agreement in light of rising food prices and their impact on global poverty. She finds that conventional wisdom about the price rises, their effect on the poor, and how best to respond is largely wrong."
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U.S. Census Bureau.
Available online.
"Although participation in government assistance programs has risen somewhat in recent years among mothers with a birth in the last year, it is much lower than when welfare reform was enacted in 1996." This report analyzes the socioeconomic characteristics of mothers participating in six different public assistance programs.
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Greenwood.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
This 2004 volume opens with discussion of "social safety net" and the economic health of various nations and their definition of poverty. Other chapters cover social security, unemployment insurance and workers compensation, Medicare and Medicaid, the welfare system in the United States and other countries, and more. Includes 300 tables, graphs, and charts.
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