Single Mom’s Plight

By jimdew

This is from Hillary’s article in the WSJ:

Another woman said to me, “I just can’t make ends meet. My health care premiums have doubled, college tuition is up. How am I supposed to make it as a single mom?”

Let’s do some math. In a household with two adults, each contributes at least 12 hours of work a day. This includes earning income, doing housework and yard work, preparing meals, tending children, keeping the car running, etc. etc. This means a household gets the benefit of at least 24 hours of work every day. A single mom can’t hope to match that – doing two thirds as much would be heroic. It is reasonable to expect that the single mom’s household standard of living will fall far short of the two adults household’s.

How do you “fix” this? The only way to “fix” the difference is to transfer the results of work (wealth) from two adult households to one adult households. This, in fact, seems to be a bedrock philosophy among some Democrats.

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