#  Sarah Halpern-Meekin 

PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2009.

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

 

 



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   ![Social Poverty, by Sarah Halpern-Meekin](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/halpernmeekinbk19.jpg?itok=WaSlLLIc) 

 

arah Halpern-Meekin's second book, [Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties](https://nyupress.org/9781479891214/social-poverty/), focuses attention on the nature of social ties among low-income, unmarried parents, highlighting their often-ignored forms of hardship. NYU Press (2019). *Vilas Associates Competition Winner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019-2021. The Vilas Associates Competition "recognizes new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance."*

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   ![It's Not Like I'm Poor](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/halpernmeekinetalbk15.jpg?itok=W72rvZz-) 

 

It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World, by Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Kathryn Edin, Laura Tach, and Jennifer Sykes. University of California Press (2015).

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Sociology and Social Policy](/alumni-department/sociology-and-social-policy)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2009](/alumni-year/2009)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)