I was ten the first time I called the electric company to set up a payment plan. My mom was working a double shift. My dad ...

While it's true that things like lacking job flexibility and poor parental involvement greatly influence health, well-being, and behavior outcomes for kids in working-class families, according to a ...

The escape from working-class life has good narrative pedigree, a classic form—beginning with the idea of escape itself. It’s something like a sharpened bildungsroman. The child is nudged forward by ...