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Dear President Obama,
Allow me to congratulate you on your victory. It seems to me like you will do a lot to improve the image of the poor and especially the poor single mothers. The stereotypes that poor equals lazy must end. Also people need to realize that as much as America is a country full of opportunities it’s not always easy to get access to these opportunities. There is the opportunity for the poor single mother to go to school, get educated and live a better life, but who will take care of her child? I think it has become harder and harder to reach the American dream, where you can climb the socioeconomic ladder. Not everyone has that opportunity. In the article What We Can Do For the Working Poor by Arlie Hochschild, it says that if you don’t have network and you are a poor single mother it will be more difficult to get the job. Hochschild explicitly says that the lack of transportation to better jobs, the lack of childcare and lack of networking will keep someone at the bottom of the social economic ladder.
What I am asking of you President Obama is to cooperate with the private sector and both help these single mothers get out of that poverty line. Things that could be done are: cutting out some taxes of the big businesses if they hire less privileged people. I think the only solution is to stimulate the private sector to include the not so privileged in their circle. There must be a government-funded program to provide daycare for the children of the working poor mothers, and also educate the young mothers on how to avoid having their kids been taking away as Emily’s kids are taken in “Fixing Bad Mothers and Saving their Children.� I think the key to helping single mothers is by educating them (to get better jobs and to avoid having put their kids on foster care) but at the same time providing them with the assistance needed. Also we must give these mother chances, just because Emily in Fixing the “Bad� Mothers and Saving their Children was mistaken once doesn’t mean she needs to always be watched. Because not every parent is a perfect parent, but the government doesn’t watch and wait for them to make a mistake.