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An 8 page paper based on Edin and Lein's Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low Wage Work, discussing some of the survival strategies of single mothers unable to support themselves and their children fully through either welfare programs or low-wage work. Full time low-wage employment appears to yield higher income than full dependence on welfare, but the net result of employment for single mothers is that after daycare expenses and the added expenses of working, the family's net income often is less than if the mother relied only on welfare to support herself and her children. Welfare recipients themselves often are forced to seek other, unreported, income in order to support their families. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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File: D0_Welflow.doc
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but her pay was only marginal at best and her husbands was no better. Shortly before her scheduled maternity leave, she discovered that the added cost of daycare for
her soon-to-be-newborn would put her into a static cash flow situation in which income would equal outlay, but only if she and her husband were very careful with every cent.
While pregnant with her second child, Elizabeth and her husband divorced, and she discovered that she could no longer pay daycare expenses on her salary alone. Elizabeth became
a stay-home mom through no choice of her own. Welfare also did not provide enough to allow her to return to work, which carried with it the added complication
of reducing some benefits and eliminating others. She made ends meet by remaining officially unemployed while working odd jobs for unreported cash payments. Technically, Elizabeth was now a
"welfare cheater." Survival Techniques Of course there are those who cheat the system as a form of entertainment, such as the woman
reported by Ronald Reagan who was on file in local welfare offices under dozens of different names and received maintenance payments for several children who did not exist. In
an extensive study by Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, however, the researchers discovered in their nearly 400 interviews with welfare mothers that most would prefer not to be in the
position of needing public assistance but could live no other way. Of 379 interviews, the researchers discovered only one mother who did not receive supplementary income from some source
that was never reported to welfare agencies (Edin and Lein, 1997). This supplementary income sometimes was in the form of cash help from family members or support aid from
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