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Single Parents in Poverty

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Is there a solution to the single-parent crisis? Not an easy one, say the experts and the people who try to help single parents and their children. But they are trying.

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A nine-month investigation reveals that the inability to lower the poverty rate in Maine is due in part to a change in the makeup of the state’s families.

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In-Depth: The full interview with Isabel Sawhill

When senior reporter Naomi Schalit began her nine months of research for our series on Maine’s single parents in poverty, one of her first stops was Isabel Sawhill’s office at the Brookings Institution. You’ll find many quotes from…

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