Ain't No Trust

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Judith Levine. Ain't No Trust

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Ain’t No Trust

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The findings in this book contribute to several different literatures. Overall, they suggest that these literatures should incorporate the lessons learned by each other. In this section, I discuss each of these literatures in turn.

Ain’t No Trust argues that the literatures on poverty and social policy would benefit from paying more attention to the literature on trust. The trust literature tells us that distrust is more common among low-income and minority populations than other populations.26 It establishes that people are less likely to trust those who hold power over them.27 It shows us that distrust dissuades action.28 Each of these findings has great relevance for understanding both life in poverty and the workings of social policies. And yet these insights are often ignored in scholarship on poverty and social policy. I find that low-income mothers feel plagued by those they believe to be untrustworthy and that their resultant distrust undermines key goals of welfare reform policy. These findings bring home the value of heeding the trust literature’s lessons when studying the struggles of low-income families and the policies that affect them.

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