Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work — The Hidden Ledger
What if earning more money does not actually make a household more secure?
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In Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work, Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein draw on extensive interviews with 379 low-income single mothers to examine how families actually survive welfare and low-wage employment.
Their research reveals a persistent gap between official income and real household expenses. Welfare benefits typically covered only part of what families needed, but low-wage employment did not…
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