Breaking patterns that derail their lives

This article is about a group of people who are helping how young single mothers to move out of poverty. The example of Jessica McLeod, a former drug user who had lost everything, and who sat with a group of counselors in a South Boston meeting room recently, huddling over a pile of papers can help us understand. Together, the group made up a plan of her out of poverty. They made a list of what she should do: Get a job, pay off old debts, enroll in nursing classes. they set a deadlines. The other strategy was to give her a reward in case she she did because this will encourage other youbg wonmen who have the same situation to jo the group.
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