Blog #9 - Working Poor Women’s Unpaid Labor

Living in poverty is never anything that we want anyone to go through. It’s something that is just nothing short of sad. Then when you throw a child into the mix it becomes even worse. As sad as it sounds there unfortunately is a correlation it seems between single family homes and children living in poverty. From watching the videos, there are many working mothers out there trying to make ends meet and yet still provide for their children. However, what do you do when the work is just not there? You have to revert to the public programs. According to the data from the NCCCP “National Center for Children in Poverty” there are close 13,000,000 children living in poverty, this in turn equates to 18% of our nations children who live with families in the United States. That is an extremely sad number. Now with a problem of this magnitude what do we do as a nation? Well there are a few different options that are currently out there. There are many different government programs that help feed children. One of the biggest ones is the school programs that will feed the children for a reduced cost all the way to a free meal. Now when school is out what do you do? There are many different shelters that will provide a meal to children that are on summer vacation. Overall, the meals are usually small and not always there for every child. I think with this data that is shown, we need to look at this problem from a broader level. Why are these children living like this? One of the biggest problems is that their parents can’t get a job or any monetary compensation. Why can’t they get a job? Could it be that possibly we as a country are allowing for a lot of work to be relocated overseas? Let’s put stricter regulations on this sort of thing for large business, tax the hell out of them to help subsidize this sort of thing, which in turn may influence them to bring the work back to our own land. What do you think? What options would you think could help fix this problem?

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