Single Mother Grants

So the Republicans and Democrats agree that student loan interest rates should stay at 3.4%, but they’re muddling up the whole process because they can’t agree on how to pay for the costs of extending a 50% interest rate cut for one more year. Well, these two bickering parties will have to come up with [...]

Homelessness is a pretty simple concept – you don’t have anywhere permanent to live in. The whole idea becomes much more complicated, however, when you are looking for federal aid to help you get through homelessness. Take for example the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the US Department of Education. The [...]

First the good news: the unemployment rate for African-American women fell from a whopping 12.3% in March to 10.8% in April. Single moms also saw a drop in unemployment rates, from 10.8% in March to 10.3% in April. That’s a respective 1.5% and 0.5% drop in unemployment rates. Now the bad news – the unemployment [...]

Mother’s day is a very special day for many of us. Moms play an important role that brings them near and dear to the hearts of many people. Single mothers, however, are often underappreciated by society at large. We have groups portraying single mothers as ‘subhuman’ when compared to their married counterparts and should be [...]

The State of Alabama is facing a grave dilemma: will it cut money from its Medicaid program in order to fund education, or will the state’s educational wellbeing suffer in order to keep Medicaid alive? Or will Alabama’s leaders find some way out of this problem without crippling one program or the other? Baptist Health [...]

Now that Santorum’s out of the picture, Romney’s more or less a shoo-in for the Republican presidential candidate. But do you even know the plans these two have laid out for our economic future1 – specifically the federal programs that directly affect single parents? Issues Mitt Romney Barack Obama Corporate Taxes 25% tax rate; no [...]

One of the most dangerous but low-key sort of scams are those that don’t make outrageous claims and make things look as legitimate as possible. Take for example the money transfer scam. Rachel Boyd, a single mom of three, found what looked like an excellent work-at-home offer. Leman Wealth Management had an online presence, a [...]