Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work by Laura Lein, Kathryn Edin

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

Laura Lein, Kathryn Edin

340 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction gender sociology informative slow-paced

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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. M...

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