By RW Jones | President & CEO
Can I Live, Inc’s President and CEO RW Jones, also known as “The Welfare Escape Artist,” teaches low-income families how to protect and grow their income, while receiving various social services benefits (i.e., Subsidized Housing, SNAP, Medicaid, etc.). Jones who spearheads the organization's program development is closing the gaps in poverty and raising the bar for social services programs. Jones tells us that we don’t have a poverty problem in America–often quoting Charles Darwin “If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”
Moms are not on welfare because they made a few bad decisions. They are on welfare because of the constructs and engineering made by this great nation. The practice of separating fathers from their families in exchange for various welfare benefits (i.e. public housing subsidies, etc.) is something that started in the 1930s and in many cases is still practiced today. For example, in the state of Virginia, a mom cannot receive child care subsidies unless they place the father on child support–regardless if the father is in the picture providing support for the child/children.
When a mom returns to the workforce, she is immediately penalized with evidence of her completely losing her healthcare (Medicare) benefits, being reduced in her food stamps (SNAP) benefits and her experiencing drastic increases in rent and other programs such as child care. While she may be no wall street broker- she knows 1+1 should equal 2 and for her, it keeps her and her family in the red. So she is forced to quit her job just to keep her family afloat.
If the moms stay home and do nothing, she gets the full bottom treasurer of the United States. FREE Housing, healthcare benefits, food, formula for her babies, and in most cases cash assistance. If she pokes her head out to chart her course of independence, she and her children are forced to walk the plank alone with no support.
THIS IS WHY WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!
Mathew Knowles and his team resonate with the story of RW Jones and join the nonprofit in their goal to move one million moms off welfare.
Link to our video is below.
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