The Plight of Single Moms—and the Policies That Would Help
Low-income women and single mothers are more likely to live with financial stress and regret, but they're also more optimistic about their prospects.
Usually, we think of poverty in terms of economic circumstances: A job is lost, or college sits out of reach. But for many women, economic misfortune has more to do with family circumstances than a specific financial calamity.
More than half of the children born to mothers under the age of 30 today are born to single mothers, a demographic headed by single mothers are in poverty.
