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- ↑ "Prize". aapss.org. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
- ↑ "Ron Haskins". brookings.edu. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
- ↑ "Fellow Joins White House Welfare Reform Effort". brookings.edu. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
- ↑ King, James. "Brookings scholars Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill make history as the first joint recipients of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize". Brookings. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
- ↑ "Ron Haskins, 2016-17 — Institute for Social Sciences". socialscience.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-29.
