Front and Center: ‘If You Lose Your Job, You Lose Your Childcare. How Are You Supposed to Make That Work?’ Asks Mississippi Mom of Five

“I really think Trump looks down on people like me,” writes Debra, a single mother caring for her five children, plus her grandmother and niece. “That’s not the type of person I want leading the country.”

Front & Center is a groundbreaking Ms . series that began as first-person accounts of Black mothers living in Jackson, Miss., receiving a guaranteed income. Moving into the fourth year and next phase of this series , the aim is to expand our focus beyond a single policy intervention to include a broader examination of systemic issues impacting Black women experiencing poverty . […]