Shut out

"Shut Out portrays the economic, educational, and existential struggles that single mothers confront as they fight back against a welfare-to-work regime that denies access to higher education and obstructs their aspirations as autonomous women, determined to exit poverty and attain family self-sufficiency. The book is a blend of policy analysis and lived realities. The voices of student mothers fighting to stay in school, and organizing for a different future, are embedded in an analysis grounded in the educational experiences of women in poverty across the states. Harsh and punitive public policies that are designed to keep poor women trapped in low wage work are juxtaposed against the actions of those who, together with their allies, have resisted - inspired by a vision of a different world made possible by higher education."--BOOK JACKET.