Friday, April 18 / 2:30 PM - 4:20 PM   •   Oak Alley

Session 116:
Poverty, Hardship and Mobility Amongst Women and Children in the USA

Chair: Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Harvard University
Discussant: Andrew S. London, Syracuse University
Discussant: Leonard M. Lopoo, Syracuse University

  1. Minimum Wages and Poverty: Evidence on Single Mothers in the Post-Welfare Reform EraJoseph J. Sabia, University of Georgia

  2. State Variation in Material Hardship Among Households with ChildrenColleen M Heflin, University of Missouri at Columbia

  3. State Investments in Successful Transitions to AdulthoodKevin Leicht, University of Iowa ; Dennis Hogan, Brown University ; Elisabeta Minca, Brown University

  4. Poverty Among the Poorest Poor in the United States: Trends for Never-Married Women and their ChildrenLawrence L. Wu, New York University ; Miodrag Stojnic, New York University

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