Working Mothers Program

1. Working Mothers Program Maria Vaughan Objective: This program is designed to educate single mothers about obtaining a job and to be able to work for wages greater than just the state minimum. The overall goal of this program is to decrease the amount of single mothers living below the poverty line.

2. Community Need Chart

3. Community Need Chart Data Cnyvitals.com

4. Logical Approach

5. Logical Approach Literature Review • In 1990, 3/5 poor families with children were headed by females. It is evident that our welfare policies reward not working single mothers and teach poor a different set of life rules. Those most likely to way off welfare are those with higher levels of education. • An increase of minimum wages are necessary to prevent single mothers from falling into poverty. From 1991-2004, 40.6% of family income were below the poverty in the US. • Single mothers living below the poverty line have substantially less education than others. They are likely to earn $2 less than those who are not living in poverty. In 1986 the average wage of single mothers working below the poverty line made only about $3.75 as compared to those living out of poverty who made about $6.00.

6. Logical Approach Works Cited • Harns, Kathleen Mullan. 1993. “Work and Welfare among Single Mothers in Poverty.” American Journal of Sociology. 99(2):317-352. • Rind, P. 1991. “Poor Single Mothers May Need Substantial Income Supplements to Bring their Families out of Poverty.” Family Planning Perspectives. 23(5):235-236. • Sabia, J. Joseph. 2008. “Minimum Wages and the Economic Well-Being of Single Mothers.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 27 (4):848-866.

7. Evaluation Plan • Evaluation Question: Are mothers’ in the program more likely to rise out of poverty than those who are not? • Evaluation Statistics: • T-Test • Logistic Regression

8. Data Analysis

9. Logistic Regression