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 …showed first 75 words of 761 total…

…showed last 75 words of 761 total…feel that termination of the welfare system would be beneficial for any of the participating parties. The purpose of the system to better our society and help bring those who are poor and in need, out of a depression so that they are able to function and provide for themselves without aid. No, I do not feel that the problem is ever going to have a solution, but at least we could skim the surface.