Progress Against Poverty: A Review of the 1964-1974 Decade
- ISBN-10
- 012558556X
- ISBN-13
- 9780125585569
- Category
- Economic assistance, Domestic
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1975
- Publisher
- New York : Academic Press
- Authors
- Robert D. Plotnick, Felicity Skidmore
Description
... 159 Shriver , Sargent , 3 Smith - Hughes Act of 1917 , 20 Social policy agenda , 179–188 Social Security Act of 1935 , 12 Amendments to 1972 , 19 households taken out of pretransfer relative poverty by , 150–151 INDEX 245.
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