Why low income equals low trust
December 10th, 2013

In the panoply of issues surrounding welfare you might not think that trust was paramount. In fact, Temple University Professor Judith Levine, in Ain't No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters
, finds that it is one of the defining issues for low income women. That it has an ongoing corrosive and paralyzing effect in the lives of these women and that even public policy cannot fully address it.
My conversation with Judith Levine: