Making Ends Meet How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work

Name: Making Ends Meet How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work
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ISBN: 9780871542342

ISBN-10: 087154234X

ISBN-13: 9780871542342

Edition: 1997

Authors: Kathryn Edin, Laura Lein

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Welfare mothers are popularly viewed as passively dependent on their checks and averse to work. Reformers across the political spectrum advocate moving these women off the welfare rolls and into the labor force as the solution to their problems. Making Ends Meet offers dramatic evidence toward a different conclusion: In the present labor market, unskilled single mothers who hold jobs are frequently worse off than those on welfare, and neither welfare nor low-wage employment alone will support a family at subsistence levels. Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein interviewed nearly four hundred welfare and low-income single mothers from cities in Massachusetts, Texas, Illinois, and South Carolina over…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Publication date: 4/17/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Laura Lein is Professor of Social Work and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Single Mothers, Welfare, and Low-Wage Work



Making Ends Meet on a Welfare Check



Why Don't Welfare-Reliant Mothers Go to Work?



Making Ends Meet at a Low-Wage Job



Why Some Single Mothers Choose to Work



Survival Strategies



Differences Among Mothers



The Choice Between Welfare and Work


Appendix A


Appendix B


Notes


References


Index