Most single mothers operate under extreme social and economic impediments -- triple the poverty rate of the rest of the population, the highest rate of low-wage employment, the worst wage gap, the lowest net worth, the highest risk of bankruptcy -- that add up to a massive inequality in American society.

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Although several states already have higher minimum-wage pay levels in place, the national rate sets the base for many low-wage workers.

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Although critics decry these as low-wage jobs, in a city with an unemployment rate of 7.8% (and very much higher in the inner wards), beggars cannot be choosers.

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Not if a low minimum wage is set by experts rather than by politicians, perhaps with an even lower rate for young workers, as in Britain.

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This may happen to a limited degree however, many of these are low valued added jobs that are best done in low wage economies only likely to return to the U.S. if they can be completed at an inexpensive rate that works alongside new technologies and management practices.

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