![]() I ended up working as a waitress, a hotel housekeeper, a maid with a house-cleaning service, a nursing-home maid and a WalMart Associate. I took the best-paying jobs that I could find without using my actual educational credentials and experience - not that I ever saw a Help Wanted ad for a political essayist, especially not for a left-wing political essayist. I ended up going to three different cities. So I decided, reluctantly, to go back to the old-fashioned kind of journalism and try this for myself. The thing that fascinated me was the assumption that a job would lift a woman and a family out of poverty. It turns out the number is a little over two - which is, strangely enough, illegal.Īnyway, the main thrust of welfare reform is that if you can’t find a husband who will support you then you have to go out and get a job. So I sat down to calculate how many men a woman has to marry to get out of poverty. The wages of blue-collar men have declined dramatically in the last 20 years. Most women are going to marry men in roughly the same social class. It might be different if they were drafting millionaires to marry women in poverty, but they’re not offering to do that - not that all those guys are actually marriage material. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anybody ever been married? It does not actually work that way. You might like to know what the administration’s brilliant new welfare-reform strategy is for women in poverty. ![]()
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