Speaker to share how distrust contributes to poverty

Many of the issues associated with poverty in the United States are obvious, such as unemployment, single-parent families and declining wages for less-educated workers. But Temple University sociologist Judith Levine uncovered another, less obvious issue that contributes to poverty: distrust. "Ain't No Trust: Low-Income Mothers, Suspicion, and Stalled Action in the Welfare Reform Era," Levine's free seminar hosted by the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty , will take place from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21 in room 8417 of the W. H. Sewell Social Science Building, 1180 Observatory Drive. Addressing the issue of mistrust may provide another key to helping poor families improve their economic situation. When Levine started ing low-income mothers in the mid-1990s, she was interested in their struggles with raising children in poverty and how they made ends meet, not in how the fathers of their kids were unfaithful or caseworkers misrepresented benefits.
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