It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World
Author:   Sarah Halpern-Meekin ,  Kathryn Edin ,  Laura Tach ,  Jennifer Sykes
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520275348


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   14 January 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Sarah Halpern-Meekin ,  Kathryn Edin ,  Laura Tach ,  Jennifer Sykes
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780520275348


ISBN 10:   0520275349
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   14 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Humanizes the working poor in an unforgettable way. The Kansas City Star 20150227


Humanizes the working poor in an unforgettable way. The Kansas City Star An important contribution to poverty policy scholarship. -- Vanessa D. Wells Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare


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Sarah Halpern-Meekin is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. Kathryn Edin is Distinguished Bloomberg Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She is the coauthor of Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City, Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage, and Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work. Laura Tach is Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. Jennifer Sykes is Assistant Professor of Social Relations and Policy at James Madison College, Michigan State University.

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