Sarah Halpern-Meekin

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Sarah Halpern-Meekin is a sociologist and associate professor in the Human Development and Family Studies department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She studies romantic relationships and welfare policy and is currently looking at how premarital experiences are associated with later relationship outcomes; how government-funded relationship education programs are experienced by their participants; and how changes to the welfare state, like the rise of the Earned Income Tax Credit, affect low-income families.

Sarah is a co-author of It’s Not Like I’m Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World, published by the University of California Press. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University.

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