In this reading, Christopher Jencks, proceeds to decipher the ongoing struggle of single mothers and their survival on welfare and low-wage work. "Making Ends Meet" discusses that almost all poor, single mothers supplement their regular income with some combination of off-the-books employment and money from relatives, lovers, and the fathers of their children. According to this excerpt, irregular income has a dramatic effect on our picture of welfare mothers' economic status. Some state that helping single mothers would just make them more numerous and rest the blame on them for the nati…
