It''s Not Like I''m Poor - How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World

"This book chronicles the impact of the sweeping transformation of the social safety net that occurred in the mid-1990s. With the dramatic expansion of tax credits--a combination of the Earned Income Tax Credit and other refunds--the economic fortunes ofthe working poor have been bolstered as never before. 'It's Not Like I'm Poor' looks at how working families plan to use their annual windfall to build up savings, go back to school, and send their kids to college. But dreams of economic mobility are often dashed by the reality of making monthly ends meet on meager wages."--Provided by publisher.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Edin, Sarah Halpern-meekin, Sarah Edin Halpern-Meekin, Halpern-Meekin Sarah, Jennifer Sykes, Sykes Jennifer, Laura Tach, Tach Laura
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2015
• EAN: 9780520275348
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27534-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Taxes; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Social Mobility, Poverty & unemployment, United States of America, USA, Poverty and precarity