Front and Center: Before Guaranteed Income and the Child Tax Credit, 'Some Months I Would Fall Very Short'

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In Front and Center, single mom Yamiracle shares how COVID put her education at risk: “I took some classes, but never finished because COVID hit and the school shut down its campus, and now I have $10,000 in loans I need to pay off before I can re-enroll.”

. and created in partnership with the Magnolia Mother’s Trust—which aims to put front and center the voices of Black women who are affected most by the often-abstract policies currently debated at the national level. The series highlights the success of Springboard to Opportunities’, which this year will give $1,000 per month for 12 months to 100 families headed by Black women living in federally subsidized housing.

I’m 29 and live in Jackson with my 4-year-old daughter. She’s in daycare right now, then she’ll start kindergarten next year. I work as a vocational tech, helping students with intellectual disabilities. Overall I enjoy the job, but it does get challenging because there are so many people to take care of, and since they have physical issues on top of learning problems, it can at times be a lot to handle.

I don’t get official child support from my child’s father; he just gives me some money for groceries here and there. I have a lawyer and do want to see about getting regular child support payments, but first I’d need to get all the money to pay the lawyer upfront, and that’s a lot. The last year has been especially stressful not having any support and needing to pay for my daughter’s childcare so I can keep going to work.

 

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SpringboardToOp I make six figures and I still have to tell my kid to wait until payday. That's not a bad thing.

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