Making Ends Meet
How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work
The state of single mothers in America is an issue of great importance to us all. The children of today will be the future leaders therefore, securing them a positive childhood is imperative to society existence. I agree with the author Christopher Jencks in his article Making Ends Meet, (2001) he documents that single mothers maintain the highest poverty level, and how the welfare reforms seemed to do little to help the situation. Offering single mothers low wage employment (lacking job stability and skilled training)…