Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States. Mimi AbramovitzWorkfare or Fair Work: Women, Welfare, and Government Work Programs. Nancy E. RoseWelfare Realities: From Rhetoric to Reform. Mary Jo Bane , David T. EllwoodMaking Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work. Kathryn Edin , Laura Lein

Signs ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1086-1090
Author(s):  
Stacey Oliker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wage Work ◽  
Government Work ◽  
Work Programs ◽  
Low Wage Work

How May I Help You?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepak Singh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Living Wage ◽  
Wage Work ◽  
Low Wage Work

May I Help You? is Deepak Singh’s insightful and thought-provoking account of disillusionment when, as an educated upper-class Indian, he moves with his American wife to the United States and discovers that America doesn’t care if he has an MBA from India or had worked for the BBC. Like many immigrants before him, Singh discovers that in America employers only trust him with a minimum wage job as a clerk, but his disappointment and embarrassment soon give way to shock when he realizes that in this world of low-wage work he is joined not merely by other immigrants, but by many Americans, a whole swath of the citizenry who goes unacknowledged and unassisted in their struggles to make a living wage. In sincere and straightforward prose, Singh takes the reader along on his journey full of dismay and compassion when the expectations he had of the United States, built around interactions in India with well-educated, affluent expatriates, collide with the reality of a coworker who must skip lunch until payday and the customers who buy in anticipation of a paycheck.

Sexual Harassment in the Academy: Harnessing the Growing Labor Movement in Higher Education to Address Sexual Harassment Against Graduate Workers

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110357
Author(s):  
Erin O’Callaghan ◽  
Veronica Shepp ◽  
Anne Kirkner ◽  
Katherine Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Wage Work ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Gender Based

Higher education is not immune to the epidemic of sexual harassment in the United States, particularly sexual harassment of graduate workers. This is due largely to power differentials of status and income, as academia relies on low-wage work. While the literature shows sexual harassment is prevalent across disciplines, current work to address the problem does not account for graduate worker precarity. The graduate labor movement, which addresses precarity, is beginning to tackle sexual harassment. We review how the labor and anti-gender-based violence movements in higher education should come together to prevent sexual harassment, presenting recommendations for structural changes to academia.

scholarly journals What is the Relationship between Benefit Conditionality and Mental Health? Evidence from the United States on TANF Policies

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
OWEN DAVIS
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Job Search ◽  
The United States ◽  
Behavioral Risk ◽  
Welfare To Work ◽  
Low Educated ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article provides new evidence on the relationship between benefit conditionality and mental health. Using data on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families policies (TANF) – the main form of poverty relief in the United States – it explores whether the mental health of low-educated single mothers varies according to the stringency of conditionality requirements attached to receipt of benefit. Specifically, the article combines state-level data on sanctioning practices, work requirements and welfare-to-work spending with health data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and evaluates the impact of conditionality on mental health over a fifteen-year period (2000 to 2015). It finds that states that have harsher sanctions, stricter job search requirements and higher expenditure on welfare-to-work policies, have worse mental health among low-educated single mothers. There is also evidence that between-wave increases in the stringency of conditionality requirements are associated with deteriorations in mental health among the recipient population. It is suggested that these findings may reflect an overall effect of ‘intensive conditionality’, rather than of the individual variables per se. The article ends by considering the wider implications for policy and research.

scholarly journals Evaluation of four tax reforms in the United States: Labor supply and welfare effects for single mothers

2008 ◽  
Vol 92 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 795-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nada Eissa ◽  
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven ◽  
Claus Thustrup Kreiner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Welfare Effects ◽  
Tax Reforms
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