‘Set Up to Fail’: A Mississippi Mother on What the U.S. Gets Wrong About Poverty

“My name is Candel, and I’m a 38-year-old single mother living in a subsidized housing complex in Jackson. I have two wonderful children: my daughter who is 14, and my son who just turned 10 last month.
Life as a single parent isn’t easy. We don’t really have any extended family—I’m single, and the only family my kids have are their father’s siblings.”
Read more at Ms. Magazine.