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Single Parents in Poverty

ABOUT THIS SERIES

Is there a solution to the single-parent crisis? Not an easy one, say the experts and the people who try to help single parents and their children. But they are trying.

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Economist Isabel Sawhill in her office at the Brookings Institution

In-Depth: The full interview with Isabel Sawhill

When senior reporter Naomi Schalit began her nine months of research for our series on Maine’s single parents in poverty, one of her first stops was Isabel Sawhill’s office at the Brookings Institution. You’ll find many quotes from Sawhill in Schalit’s five-part series; here is the complete interview transcript.

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