#  Jennifer Sykes 

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2011.

Associate Professor of Social Relations and Policy, James Madison College, Michigan State University.

 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Website](https://jmc.msu.edu/faculty-staff/directory/Sykes.html) 

 

 



 

   
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It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World[, ](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520275355)co-authored by Sarah Halpern-Meekin '09, Kathryn Edin,, Laura Tach '10, and Jennifer Sykes '11, has been published by the University of California Press (2015).

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Sociology and Social Policy](/alumni-department/sociology-and-social-policy)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2011](/alumni-year/2011)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)