Making ends Meet Case Study. How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work Contemporary Issues in American Business

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 …

…government has a responsibility to the society, which includes the single mothers and their families not to view them as a menace, but to research ways to educate them and promote independence. Forcing single mothers off of welfare onto low paying, low skilled employment is not a solution. Just because an uncertain income takes them off the "official poverty statistics" they still embrace many hardships that they did not face while on the system. (page 393)