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Mothers Bear the Brunt of Biases
Contempt for impoverished women, with children, fuels poverty
Among the social ills that need fixing — unbridled disdain for women, specifically mothers in poverty who have (gasp!) children. This spilled out on my Facebook thread about minimum wage jobs. The catalyst for the bile — my brother. (Sorry, bro, but when you post on my FB page, you’ve gone public.)
She is 28 and has 6 kids?
She has created her own ‘constant struggle’ by having too many kids.
I tried to warn him. You picked the wrong person to have this disagreement with, brother. With over 3 decades working with families experiencing homelessness and poverty, including for the past 14 years chronicling their stories as part of my work for my nonprofit, HEAR US Inc., I’ve heard and seen too much suffering to let my brother’s cluelessness slide.
The CNBC news story focused on how the minimum wage doesn’t begin to cut it for families trying to survive. This dilemma pits profitable corporations employing slave labor techniques to keep costs down and earnings up against, well, the powerless, often impoverished mothers.
Many opponents of the bill say they’re concerned raising the minimum wage to $15 may cause significant job loss. A report from the Congressional Budget Office released last…
