Kathryn Edin is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and coauthor of Making Ends Meet (1997). Maria Kefalas is Professor of Sociology at Saint Joseph”s University in Philadelphia. She is the author of Working-Class Heroes (California, 2003).
10 Ebooks door Kathryn Edin
Maria Kefalas & Kathryn Edin: Promises I Can Keep
Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philade …
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€21.99
Timothy J. Nelson & Kathryn Edin: Doing the Best I Can
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 inne …
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€21.99
Kathryn Edin & Laura Tach: It’s Not Like I’m Poor
The world of welfare has changed radically. As the poor trade welfare checks for low-wage jobs, their low earnings qualify them for a hefty check come tax time—a combination of the earned income tax …
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€30.99
Susan J. Popkin: No Simple Solutions
In this book, Sue Popkin tells the story of how an ambitiousand riskysocial experiment affected the lives of the people it was ultimately intended to benefit: the residents who had suffered through t …
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€31.99
Kathryn Edin & Maria Kefalas: Promises I Can Keep
Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philade …
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€47.54
The Center for American Progress & Maria Shriver: Shriver Report
Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, Le Bron James, and other high-profile contributors. Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnso …
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€19.19
Kathryn Edin & Laura Lein: Making Ends Meet
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 …
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€41.39
Kathryn Edin & Paula England: Unmarried Couples with Children
Today, a third of American children are born outside of marriage, up from one child in twenty in the 1950s, and rates are even higher among low-income Americans. Many herald this trend as one of the …
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€43.50
Susan Clampet-Lundquist & Stefanie DeLuca: Coming of Age in the Other America
Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African Americans, still have difficulty entering the middle class, in part because of the dis …
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€44.98
Orlando Patterson: Cultural Matrix
The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary in …
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€41.23
