Promises I Can Keep

By Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas

Promises I Can Keep

By Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas

Doing the best I can

By Kathryn Edin

Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among in...

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

By Jennifer Sykes, Kathryn Edin, Laura Tach, Sarah Halpern Meekin

"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 Inco...

Doing the Best I Can

By Kathryn Edin, Timothy J. Nelson

2.00 a day

By Kathryn Edin

"A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at...

There's a lot of month left at the end of the money

By Kathryn Edin

Making ends meet

By Kathryn Edin

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 th...

Coming of age in the other America

By Stefanie DeLuca

Welfare to work

By Kathryn Edin