How Long to Read Making Ends Meet

How Long Does it Take to Read Making Ends Meet?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read Making Ends Meet by Kathryn Edin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Welfare mothers are popularly viewed as passively dependent on their checks and averse to work. Reformers across the political spectrum advocate moving these women off the welfare rolls and into the labor force as the solution to their problems. Making Ends Meet offers dramatic evidence toward a different conclusion: In the present labor market, unskilled single mothers who hold jobs are frequently worse off than those on welfare, and neither welfare nor low-wage employment alone will support a family at subsistence levels. Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein interviewed nearly four hundred welfare...

How long is Making Ends Meet?

Making Ends Meet by Kathryn Edin is 340 pages long, and a total of 85,000 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Making Ends Meet Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 44 minutes to read Making Ends Meet aloud.

What Reading Level is Making Ends Meet?

Making Ends Meet is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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