She is living paycheck to paycheck because of many different reasons. One reason is that she is recently separated from her husband because he has become addicted to pain pills and used up all their money on his addiction. Another is that she does not have a college degree and therefore works at a nursing home making only $9.49 an hour. Since her estranged husband has been addicted to pain pills, he doesn’t have a job, so he is not really contribute towards their children in any way. He does not help with their day care, their food, and their clothes, none of it. She also has trouble ever getting ahead because of the costs of healthcare for her and all three of her children. Another factor is that she is trying to get legally divorced from her husband and that is a very expensive process.
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So she has to make those hard decisions like maxing out her credit card in order to have a lake day with her kids.
2) What social and economic support does Katrina receive to help her manage the struggles of being a single mother living in poverty?
It seems like she gets a lot of support from many different sources. With daycare, she uses the
Chambliss Center for Children, which is open 24/7 so it works around her work schedule, and it is designed for working poor single mothers like herself but at a very reduced rate, which is great because for someone like her, with three kids, she could spend her whole paycheck on childcare if the rates weren’t reduced. On her taxes she gets an Earned Income Tax Credit because she is a low-wage working parent, which means she gets more money back on her taxes, which for her obviously helps out a lot.
She also has food stamps on and off throughout the documentary, which pays for food and is a big
So she has to make those hard decisions like maxing out her credit card in order to have a lake day with her kids.
2) What social and economic support does Katrina receive to help her manage the struggles of being a single mother living in poverty?
It seems like she gets a lot of support from many different sources. With daycare, she uses the
Chambliss Center for Children, which is open 24/7 so it works around her work schedule, and it is designed for working poor single mothers like herself but at a very reduced rate, which is great because for someone like her, with three kids, she could spend her whole paycheck on childcare if the rates weren’t reduced. On her taxes she gets an Earned Income Tax Credit because she is a low-wage working parent, which means she gets more money back on her taxes, which for her obviously helps out a lot.
She also has food stamps on and off throughout the documentary, which pays for food and is a big