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 …showed first 75 words of 605 total…

…showed last 75 words of 605 total…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)