Unemployment, Public Policy, and Families: Forecasts for the 1980s.

Moen, Phyllis

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ERIC Number: EJ294541

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1983

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Unemployment, Public Policy, and Families: Forecasts for the 1980s.

Moen, Phyllis

Journal of Marriage and the Family, v45 n4 p751-60 Nov 1983

Speculates about the consequences of unemployment for families in the 1980s, using data from the 1975 recession and the Great Depression. Found that families with preschoolers as well as Black and single-parent families were most vulnerable to financial loss and that government income transfers were ineffective. (JAC)

Descriptors: Business Cycles, Cohort Analysis, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Problems, Futures (of Society), Government Role, Public Policy, State of the Art Reviews, Stress Variables, Unemployment

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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