Daniel Thursz Social Justice Lecture
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 · 5 - 6:30 PM
Off Campus
Kathryn Edin, distinguished professor of sociology and public health
at Johns Hopkins University, is one of the nation's leading poverty
researchers, working in the domains of welfare and low-wage work,
family life, and neighborhood contexts. A qualitative and mixed-method
researcher, she has taken on key mysteries about the urban poor that
have not been fully answered by quantitative work: How do single
mothers possibly survive on welfare? Why don't more go to work? Why do
they end up as single mothers in the first place? Where are the
fathers and why do they disengage from their children's lives? How
have the lives of the single mothers changed as a result of welfare
reform?
Edin has authored 5 books with a sixth forthcoming and some 50 journal
articles. The hallmark of her research is her direct, in-depth
observations of the lives of low-income women and men Her 1997 book
with Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare
and Low-Wage Work addressed a central policy question of the time as
welfare reform legislation was being debated: Why weren't these
mothers working?
Tuesday, November 11
5 PM - UM SSW Auditorium
525 West Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD
Free to Attend
1.5 CEUs Available for $15
at Johns Hopkins University, is one of the nation's leading poverty
researchers, working in the domains of welfare and low-wage work,
family life, and neighborhood contexts. A qualitative and mixed-method
researcher, she has taken on key mysteries about the urban poor that
have not been fully answered by quantitative work: How do single
mothers possibly survive on welfare? Why don't more go to work? Why do
they end up as single mothers in the first place? Where are the
fathers and why do they disengage from their children's lives? How
have the lives of the single mothers changed as a result of welfare
reform?
Edin has authored 5 books with a sixth forthcoming and some 50 journal
articles. The hallmark of her research is her direct, in-depth
observations of the lives of low-income women and men Her 1997 book
with Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare
and Low-Wage Work addressed a central policy question of the time as
welfare reform legislation was being debated: Why weren't these
mothers working?
Tuesday, November 11
5 PM - UM SSW Auditorium
525 West Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD
Free to Attend
1.5 CEUs Available for $15
