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Direct linkGraefe, Deborah Roempke; Lichter, Daniel T. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
The promotion of marriage and two-parent families became an explicit public policy goal with the passage of the 1996 welfare reform bill. Marriage has the putative effect of reducing welfare dependency among single mothers, but only if they marry men with earnings sufficient to lift them and their children out of poverty. Newly released data from…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Unwed Mothers, Females, Marriage
