Sarah Halpern-Meekin

It's Not Like I'm Poor

How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World

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Drawing on interviews with 115 families, the authors look at how parents plan to use this annual cash windfall to build up savings, go back to school, and send their kids to college.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Edin, Kathryn / Tach, Laura / Sykes, Jennifer

ISBN: 978-0-520-27535-5
EAN: 9780520275355
Produktnummer: 16428873
Verlag: University of California Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Masse: H15.4 cm x B22.7 cm x D1.8 cm 422 g
Abbildungen: 8
Gewicht: 422
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

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.