# Project 2025 & Single Mothers

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- Published: 2024-12-16T15:54:11+00:00
- Author: MsRockMon

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During the 2024 Presidential election between Vice President Kamala Harris and former
President Donald J. Trump, you would be hard-pressed not to hear the words \’Project
2025.\’ The nearly one-thousand-page manifesto, prepared by the Heritage Foundation,
contains conservative ideas concerning the future of America. To be clear, the Heritage
Foundation is a long-operating Conservative think tank located in Washington, D.
C. According to its website, the company works to build an America where freedom,
opportunity, prosperity, and civil society flourish.

The mission statement boldly portrays the feelings of the Board of Directors concerning
the importance of less government and more personal space regarding business and
family and pursuing a life of liberty and justice for all. According to Project 
2025, there are five key problems within agencies overseeing the Federal government
that must be addressed, one being to tackle low-income communities that are allegedly
drowning in addiction and government dependence. Project 25 contains several recommendations
that, if implemented, could significantly impact the future of America and land 
the Heritage Foundation smack dab in the Oval Office. \’The Conservative Promise\’
is the opening salvo of the 2025 Presidential Transitional Project launched in 2022.

The 34 authors prepared a list offering the sections they felt needed restructuring.
The five sections are:

 

 

 1. Taking The Reins of Government,
 2. The Common Defense,
 3. The General Welfare,
 4. The Economy, and
 5. Independent Regulatory Agencies.

 

 

The General Welfare section begins with the writers invoking the founders of the
U.S., noting that the creation of the Constitution, \’promoting the general welfare,\’
was not a green light to promote a government amassing a nationwide debt of $3 trillion
in one fell swoop (Project 2025). 

The deficit ballooned several hundred years after the founding fathers balanced 
the original budget. Project 2025 writers invoked welfare expenditures as a major
contributor to the nation\’s rising costs. According to conservatives and some liberals,
welfare recipients have seemingly maintained the number one position as villainous
and culpable in increased domestic spending for decades. The origin of the Republicans
inculpating poor Americans for creating unsustainable deficits began years before
President Reagan coined the phrase \’Welfare Queen.\’ [https://thechildsupporthustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2.jpegwp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2-1.jpegthe-better-single-parent-and-the-missing-statistics/](https://thechildsupporthustle.com/project-2025-single-mothers/\"https://thechildsupporthustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2.jpegwp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2-1.jpegthe-better-single-parent-and-the-missing-statistics/\")

The Project includes single motherhood as a key result of the alleged incentivization
of welfare dependency. The authors call for repealing policies discouraging stable
marriages and nuclear families. The greatest obstacle to abolishing policies that
support low-income single women and their children is the lack of evidence that 
family formation is a definite catalyst for welfare dependency.  [https://thechildsupporthustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2.jpegwp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2-1.jpegsingle-father-homes-not-better-than-single-mother-homes/](https://thechildsupporthustle.com/project-2025-single-mothers/\"https://thechildsupporthustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2.jpegwp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2-1.jpegsingle-father-homes-not-better-than-single-mother-homes/\")

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Incorporating single motherhood directly into a cornerstone reason why America suffers
from social ills like poverty, teenage delinquency, and increased crime rates is
not a new concept. However, unless researchers and politicians want to continue 
the cycle of discouraging nuclear families, the reformation must date back to the
inception of federal welfare. To understand the current status of welfare programs
and if single motherhood is a phenomenon that has caused dysfunction in Black families,
one must consider a couple of facts—the matter of politicians excluding Black women
and families from the program based on nothing more than discrimination.  [https://youtu.be/Pv2n5zFZa-E](https://thechildsupporthustle.com/project-2025-single-mothers/\"https://youtu.be/Pv2n5zFZa-E\")

 

Winifred Bell, the co-director of the Center for Studies in Income Maintenance Policy,
professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, and expert on Aid for Dependent
Children (ADC) and public welfare policy, wrote extensively welfare policies during
her career. Bell explained in a 1965 publication that welfare workers, operating
under little supervision, were tasked with differentiating between worthy and unworthy
candidates. There were several studies to support Bell\’s claims. According to Bell,
in 1943, the Bureau of Public Assistance studied 16 state programs, which revealed
that although no eligibility conditions explicitly excluded non-white and illegitimate
children based on a \”suitable home\” philosophy, exclusion was endemic.

 

 

Caseworkers ensured the suitable home policies were fully enforced against all accused
violators. Good housekeeping and remaining childless until married were violations
that guaranteed disqualification for Black families. In 10 of the 16 states, each
with more than 5,000 children in the population, Negro recipient rates varied from
14 per 1,000 in North Carolina to 173 per 1,000 in Illinois. These statistics prove
that single motherhood caused by spousal death was acceptable for white and not 
for Black women receiving ADC.

 

On the other hand, non-white families would find themselves constantly rejected 
by social workers from participation in relief programs. Welfare workers scrutinized
not only the homes of mothers but also how morally they behaved. Non-Black mothers
were screened accordingly and had to show immoral and unhealthy behavior for caseworkers
to deny the family benefits. Applicants of darker persuasions found themselves prejudged
by caseworkers who were there to screen, verify, and assist all who qualified.

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According to Bell, unmarried mothers were easily disadvantaged because many Southerners
judged practically all Negroes were believe to be \”immoral\”; therefore, almost
any discriminatory practice against Negroes could justify exclusion. Nearly 60 years
after the first round of welfare reform, conservatives, particularly in the South,
routinely deem Black people as immoral by another name. By republican policymakers
declaring the culture as genetically inferior and the creator of most social problems,
they are seemingly justified in associating welfare with single Black mothers. Many
Americans attribute the link between welfare dependency and single motherhood to
the Democratic Party.

 

 

One prominent educator and author is Kate S. Hymowitz, a Contributing Editor for
City Journal and a William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Both are 
conservative organizations, and Hymowitz stays on course in her extensive catalog
discussing welfare and its effects on the Black family. In her 2005 article entitled\’
Moynihan Lied,\’ Hymowitz relays to her readers that more Blacks were out of work
in 1964 than in 1954, strategically suggesting the riots in Harlem and Patterson,
New Jersey, in 1964 paralleled northern ghettos with the George Wallace South. In
reality, the unemployment status of Black Americans was not higher in 1954 than 
in 1964

 

.

Dr. Tiffany Ford, a contributor to the Brookings Institute, provided accurate information
that directly contradicts America\’s unemployment status before the Civil Rights
Era. The unemployment rates for Black men and women were expeditiously higher by
double digits when compared to their white counterparts. The Bureau of Labor Statistics(
BLS) did not differentiate between Black and non-white workers. BLS reported that
in 1954, the unemployment rate for non-white men and non-white women was approximately
11% and 9%, respectively.

 

On the other hand, white Americans have enjoyed lower unemployment rates than their
counterparts since 1954. The U.S. identified non-white people. They included:

 

 * Negroes,
 * Indians,
 * Japenese,
 * Chinese,
 * Filipino, and
 * Other races (Koreans, Asiatic Indians, Indonesians, Polynesians, mixed white,
   Negro, and Indian ancestry).

 

 

Even if unemployment was lower for Black Americans during the decade in question,
the Census Bureau does not provide additional information to specifically identify
unemployment rates by race. These numbers are just a tiny part of the decades of
misinformation distributed by mainstream media.

 

 

A large number of people credit the Democratic Party for creating welfare-dependent
single mothers by incentivizing them with welfare benefits. On the other hand, the
Dixiecrats, another name for southern Republicans, were supportive of receiving 
federal dollars for operating ADC. The biggest problem in the North was the discrimination
and racist policies, leaving Black families in poverty even when they received mailbox
money. In the southern states, Jim Crow and other George Wallace policies practically
guaranteed no work AND no welfare. [https://thechildsupporthustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2.jpegwp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2-1.jpegthe-truth-about-welfares-man-in-the-house-rule/](https://thechildsupporthustle.com/project-2025-single-mothers/\"https://thechildsupporthustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2.jpegwp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_1174-2-1.jpegthe-truth-about-welfares-man-in-the-house-rule/\")

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Both parties have been vocal, before and after the magic year 1965, when determining
the eligibility of applicants of the darker persuasion. People who were in desperate
need of help, including children, were completely ignored when case workers allowed
racism to prejudge feelings toward people in need. One repeated stereotype that 
would undoubtedly grow the nose of any puppet, living or full of wood, is that Black
families were financially thriving until welfare was thrust upon them. Relating 
the crumbling of America to rising single parenthood without further context has
resulted in Black single mothers receiving and retaining nearly all guilt on the
shoulders of single mothers disproportionately blamed unfairly.

 

 

Likewise, for the sake of condemning Black men for allegedly abandoning their children
while simultaneously accusing Black women of choosing welfare over family is a form
of unparalleled gaslighting. Truth be told, the current state of Black America is
intertwined almost entirely in record and historic under and unemployment, extreme
prejudice within the United States public and social structures, and repeated untruths
that depict Black Americans as lazy instead of a product of all of the above.

 

When non-white mothers applied for welfare benefits, not only did they not receive
public assistance during the most financially tricky eras, 30 years would pass before
they qualified. The qualifications for Black women were more extensive than for 
their counterparts. The idea that Black people, women in general, were lazy and 
reproducing children to avoid working is easily disproven. African American women
worked religiously from when they could walk until they could no longer take a step.

 

The most potent legislators devised painstaking efforts to shape a narrative in 
the minds of white America of welfare dependence and unwed reproduction in Black
communities before the Civil and Voting Rights Acts passed in 1965. Black Americans
have worked or sought employment since the day of emancipation, fearing criminal
repercussions if found idle during the workday. To make the accusations worse, GOP
leaders, including former President Ronald Regan, attribute the massive growth of
welfare recipients, programs, and costs to the population who receives less from
the program.

 

Strangely, America undeniably needed government interference like the War on Poverty
more than national leaders and regular citizens care to admit. The lack of accountability
for the problems that plague non-white families is still an issue based on the state
of Black America. Although many criticize the war as a waste of money and a catastrophic
failure, the outcome may have reached domestic warfare without some assistance. 
When the poor cannot work to eat and provide for their families, the rich can become
food. We must adjust the narrative to reflect true Black history as it relates to
poverty, welfare dependency, and what role the program actually played in molding
Black futures. 

 

 

References:

Bell, W. (1965). _Aid to dependent children:_. Columbia University Press, New York,
NY.

Ford, T. (2023, February 14). _Historical unemployment for Black women and men in
the United States: 1954-2021_. Brookings. [https://www.brookings.edu/articles/historical-unemployment-for-black-women-and-men-in-the-united-states-1954-2021/](https://thechildsupporthustle.com/project-2025-single-mothers/\"https://www.brookings.edu/articles/historical-unemployment-for-black-women-and-men-in-the-united-states-1954-2021/\")

Heritage Foundation. (2023, April). _Mandate for leadership the conservative promise_.
Project 2025 presidential transition project. Retrieved December 13, 2024, from 
[https://www.project2025.org/policy/](https://thechildsupporthustle.com/project-2025-single-mothers/\"https://www.project2025.org/policy/\")

Heritage Foundation. (2024). _Building for conservative victory through policy, 
personnel, and training. Get the facts_. Just a moment… [https://www.project2025.org/](https://thechildsupporthustle.com/project-2025-single-mothers/\"https://www.project2025.org/\")

Hymowitz, K. S. (2023, May 18). _The Black family: 40 years of lies_. City Journal.
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