Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America

by Mark Robert Rank

This acclaimed book powerfully depicts a side of the welfare experience rarely seen, dispelling the myth that only an urban underclass―the center of most policy debate―struggles on welfare. Rank's juxtaposition of numbers and faces demonstrates that welfare recipients share much in common with the rest of the population.

Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology

266 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 1994

Reviews

[Natalie LeVar Guerrero]

I just re-discovered this book on a bookshelf at home. I read this back in college for one of my classes. I rememember enjoying it, so I'm going to read it again. It'll probably take me a while to get through it though, since it's not a novel :)