Women and Children First?

Single mothers raising children under the age of 18 make up more than a third of the families meeting the federal poverty definition in North Carolina. That’s $20,030 a year, before taxes, for a mother with two children working 40 hours a week. This project brings together advocates, public policy experts and others, while giving moms across the state a platform to tell their stories. Over the coming months, we hope to identify policies that N.C. and local government can enact to help families in need, including those that the official poverty definitions miss.