Mississippi Business Journal » Single mothers http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:02:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Catch-22: getting on welfare easier than getting off http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/31/catch-22-getting-on-welfare-easier-than-getting-off/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=catch-22-getting-on-welfare-easier-than-getting-off http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/31/catch-22-getting-on-welfare-easier-than-getting-off/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:00:56 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=44104 Regardless of the definition of poverty or opinions on solutions for change, one thing is certain: Getting on government assistance is a lot easier than getting off. Many single mothers who become dependent on welfare programs find the road to self-sufficiency difficult. Tanya Shavers, a 34-year-old mother of four who recently moved out of the [...]

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