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Sociology 498: Homelessness
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Sociology 498: Homelessness
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"The proportion of working-age women with neither a spouse nor enough money of their own to keep off the street shows no clear trend over time, falling from 4.0 percent in 1969 to 3.4 percent in 1979 but then rising to 4.1 percent in 1989.
"But a third major change was also occurring: more unmarried women with extremely low incomes had children.
"The effect of this change was accentuated by the fact that more poor single mothers were living on their own. In both 1969 and 1979 half of all single mothers with personal income below $2500 were living with at least one other adult. By 1989 the proportion was down to 36 percent."
Christopher Jencks, The Homeless, chapter 5, page 55-6.
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