@article{171281,
  author = {Kathryn Edin},
  title = {Surviving the Welfare System: How Welfare Recipients Make Ends Meet in Chicago},
  abstract = { Much of the literature on the underclass alleges that welfare induces dependency. The author uses data from intensive interviews with 50 Chicago-area mothers on welfare to show that welfare pays too little to entice recipients into a life of passive dependence. The women interviewed all supplemented their AFDC and food stamp benefits with at least one of two sources of unreported income: assistance from family, friends, boyfriends, or absent fathers, and income from work. },
  year = {1991},
  journal = {Social Problems},
  volume = {38},
  pages = {301-312},
  language = {eng},
}