The factors that contributed to the instability of child care that Jacqueline and Julia experienced were a one income family which was still limited because Julie didn't get paid much or sometimes she didn't get paid at all since she did internships at times. Another factor was her welfare situation because she tried to receive subsidized day care but was put at the end of the list and this would take forever so she was forced to try and find means of payment on her own for this child care situation. Julie ended up joining the WEP which is the Work Experience Program and this program was supposed to help Julia afford day care by giving her a set amount of money to give to a child care agency but they slacked on payments. WEP would give Julia late payments which at one time were backed up so far that Julie had to pull her children out of daycare because she was behind in payments due to the WEP not paying reimbursing her for day care. Jacqueline was put in so many day cares that she didn't have time to form a real relationship with anybody which could lead to her having trust issues. The time Julia actually finds a steady day care for Jacqueline she has to pull her out after about two years due to financial troubles which was a shame because Jacqueline had finally gotten used to someone stable that she could trust.
Minimum wage jobs add to the poor working womans ability to find and maintain stable and safe childcare and make a better living because minimum wage barely pays the bills to begin with. A working mother needs to be able to afford housing, food, utilities, child care, transportation and much more and minimum wage just doesn't cut it. These minimum wage pay checks barely get these families buy and they are living paycheck to paycheck which doesn't even allow them to save up for a "rainy day" in case of emergencies. In one of the videos a woman worked as a bus drive and a janitor and she had been saving up nine months for a car and she ended up having surgery for her gull bladder and because she didn't have insurance it was pricey and she had to take that saved up money and put it towards the hospital bill instead of her much needed automobile. Instances like this causes for much unneeded stress and if these women would get paid better they would be able to save up for an emergency or just have a little extra income to maybe buy those shoes for work or maybe something nice for their house or children that's long overdue. One woman in the video said that she'd like to be able to buy her kids Nike shoes or take them to a fancy restaurant but given her unfortunate circumstances that won't ever be able to happen. Minimum wage barely helps teenagers save up for college so I don't understand how this is able to help out a single mother and her children.
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