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SUBMITTER: Hook JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8057729 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hook Jennifer L JL Romich Jennifer L JL Lee JoAnn S JS Marcenko Maureen O MO Kang Ji Young JY
Social problems 20160421 2
This study examined economic disconnection, an extreme case of economic exclusion in which families lack both employment and cash assistance, among families in the child welfare system. To build hypotheses about the intersection of the child welfare system and economic disconnection we used a multilevel framework that considers federal policy, local practice, and processes within families. We hypothesized that child welfare intervention has the potential to be a mechanism of economic inclusion o ...[more]