Iversen R.R., Armstrong A.L. Jobs Aren’t Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006.

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"This is an excellent and carefully crafted ethnography of how millions of people in the United States have jobs, work hard—but still have to live in poverty. To improve the situation, the authors argue, we need a new approach to social policy and a new theory of economic mobility. Highly recommended!"
—Richard Swedberg

"Jobs Aren't Enough is a rich and careful empirical study of the close interconnections of work, family, school, and community as experienced by parents struggling to get ahead and provide a better future for their children. Iversen and Armstrong make a strong case for a new economic mobility paradigm: Today's realities require these aspects of working families' lives be treated as part of a single policy problem. This book should be required reading for all who attempt to tackle one or more of these issues in the future."
—Thomas A. Kochan, Co-Director of the MIT Workplace Center and author of Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America

"Jobs Aren't Enough decisively steps outside the analytic silos that characterize much of the research on low-income families. Using an innovative ethnographic method that should be a model for future research, the authors show all of us—academics, policymakers, and practitioners—that only comprehensive, coordinated reform in both the public and private sectors will solve the problem of working poverty."
—Annette Bernhardt, Deputy Director, Poverty Program, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

"Iversen and Armstrong make a strong case that political, economic and social systems need to change in order to support people on the job... This book is so well researched that it's also a compendium of fascinating and frightening statistics from other studies about American workers and our workforce development system...folks designing and implementing political, economic and social systems need to learn what Iversen and Armstrong know. The public needs to use this information to demand better, more effective systems based on realities, not myths."
—Workforce Developments

"well-written...Overall, Iversen and Armstrong have produced a comprehensive study...Recommended."
—Choice