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21
Aug

ASA Conference: Author Sessions – Updates

If you’ve enjoyed some of our UC Press author sessions at the ASA conference, attend some other sessions listed below. Below are the sessions for Monday, August 22nd and Tuesday, August 23rd. Sessions are located at …

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07
May

Motherhood Today: Doing the Best They Can

Motherhood (mŭth′ər-ho͝od′). noun: the state or experience of having or raising a child. Sounds straightforward. Yet motherhood today is anything but straightforward. Whether they are single mothers, working mothers, teenage mothers, or surrogate mothers, all …

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07
Apr

The EITC Safety Net

By Kathryn Edin Tax season is upon us, apparent in the stream of H&R Block TV commercials (“Get your billions back America!”), the line on many middle-class families’ to-do lists—“find tax docs”—that …

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14
Mar

When Welfare Leaves Out Fathers

A recent article in the Atlantic cited Kathryn Edin, co-author, with Timothy Nelson, of Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City, on anti-poverty programs’ effects on poor working fathers. The article is one …

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