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“America has a cold — which means women will get the flu, and working-class and poor families will get pneumonia.”
Minneapolis, Minn. (October 28, 2025)—Chastity Lord, President and CEO of Jeremiah Program (JP) — a national nonprofit with one of the nation’s most successful strategies for disrupting generational poverty for single mothers and their children — issued the following statement regarding the government shutdown:
“America has a cold — which means women will get the flu, and working-class and poor families will get pneumonia. At the end of October, many families will face another hurdle in what I’m sure feels like a nightmare regarding SNAP and WIC payments. Families aren’t just making hard choices. They’re being asked to trust, to believe deeply that families matter, that children matter, that they matter — even when the evidence is unclear.
Single moms are running the toughest race, starting from behind yet pushing forward every day. Many of the moms we serve are stretching every dollar, every hour, every ounce of energy just to keep going.
With the government shutdown, single moms who rely on essential programs like WIC, SNAP, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, Section 8 Housing, and childcare subsidies are being forced to run uphill without proper support. When safety nets are delayed or uncertain, it’s single mothers and their children who feel the impact first and most deeply.”
About Jeremiah Program: Jeremiah Program (JP) is a national organization whose mission is to disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children, two generations at a time. By investing simultaneously in a mother’s vision for her personal and professional goals and the education of her children, she simultaneously reauthors her family’s outcome as well her community’s — proof points matter. In 2024, JP actively served over 2,000 moms and children across nine cities in Austin, TX; Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Brooklyn, NY; Fargo, ND-Moorhead, MN; Las Vegas, NV; Minneapolis, MN; Rochester, MN; and St. Paul, MN.