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Economic Mobility Is Essential to Family Wellbeing—and to Society

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By Chastity Lord, Aine Creedon
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Image Credit: Andrew A from Unsplash For too long, the United States has treated poverty as a problem to manage rather than a system to redesign. We have built programs to help children succeed while often overlooking the structural barriers the adults raising them must face. For single mothers, those barriers are not incidental. They shape whether a family can remain housed, nourished, healthy, educated, and economically secure. Single motherhood is also not a niche issue.
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How single mothers hold America together

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By Janice Johnson Dias, Chastity Lord
| TheGrio Verified
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Just under a year ago, on a chilly March afternoon in Minneapolis, I spent time in a hotel lobby listening to hundreds of mothers from across the country talk about their lives. They were part of the Jeremiah Program (JP), a national initiative that supports single mothers with young children through education, childcare, housing, and community support.
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How single mothers hold America together

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By Janice Johnson Dias, Chastity Lord
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OPINION: Single mothers are quietly holding America together, and our policies are making them work harder. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Just under a year ago, on a chilly March afternoon in Minneapolis, I spent time in a hotel lobby listening to hundreds of mothers from across the country talk about their lives.
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