Child Welfare Reform

Having to see my aunt struggle with maintaining 5 kids under one household all by herself without being able to help her out is one of the most difficult things to see. 10 year old me just sat there as my aunt complained about not being able to get help from anywhere because she “makes” a lot of money. Many single parents aren’t able to get the resources they need because of the littlest things.
INHERENCY:
Single parents struggle to find public child care services, especially if their kids are under 5 years old because at this moment there are no programs that care for the kids until they get into school. That is unless they go to a child care that is unlicensed. Parents struggle to find infant care because it is too expensive for them
Helping parents is one of the things that is helping the city because it is allowing the parents to get the help they need financially. In the article, “The Route to Welfare Reform,” Judith M. Gueron who is an expert on unemployment, social disadvantage and family welfare, writes, “They offer people opportunities, but also seek to impose an obligation, using carrots and sticks to change behavior and make welfare less attractive." The government that in order for someone to receive welfare, they need to have help constantly and they constantly need to work. The more funding that the welfare got, the more opportunities were made. Another example would be in the article “Child Care Assistance for Single Mothers, Dawn, who is also a single mother and has had experience in getting child care assistance, writes, “Massachusetts’ child care, averaging $12,700 a year, is among the most expensive states to keep your 4 year old kids in daycare here.” The government wouldn’t be able to afford low-income families and their needs because MA is the most unaffordable state for single parent families that need to get their kids into daycare or
They wouldn’t want to be able to come up with a plan to help single parent families and low-income families. In the article, “Some food stamps can’t afford food plan,” it says, “Low-income in Boston and Philadelphia on food stamps don’t have the money to buy the cheapest food plan, researchers said.” Yes, the government may not be able to afford for all of the families in MA but there are other resources that we can use in order to help families out there. As I interviewed Inita Jones, she says, “So we have grants through different places, because we are a non-profit organization, people want a society/community who will help non-profits because they know we’re broke, they know we are poor. People tend to give free stuff to us.”
IMPACT CALCULUS: Boston with this plan would get a lot of struggling families from moving from house to house. With the growing low income family population, a high number of people will seek for more jobs and eventually need child care services. With my proposal, we will be providing low-income families with the privileges that they had never had. Single parents who struggled to get food stamps because they make “too much money” at their job but with their checks they can only be able to pay for rent not for food. Single parents who try to get as much child care assistance without having to spend so much