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

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

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

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