Can you please tell me a little bit about yourself Myles and your involvement with Moms and Jobs (MoJo). I am a self-defined entrepreneur who truly believes that hard work and opportunity recognition can get you any- where you want to be. I’m never really satisfied with what I have and through a long route working in a wide variety of industries including Indie Music, Financial Services, Internet Marketing, Real Estate Development, and Social Enterprise, I have discovered that adaptability is one of the biggest fac- tors to success.
I graduated from Northeastern University in
2010, with a degree in business and an itch to do something positive for the world with my abilities. I am currently the Marketing Manager for MoJo, short for Moms and Jobs. MoJo is a social enterprise based out of Lowell, Ma that aims to help single moms under the poverty line through sustainable employment with strategic benefits such as free childcare in the apparel manufacturing sector. I was hired by MoJo in October, only two months after they opened their first facility in Lowell, Ma. As a small company with lots to do, I am part of almost every aspect of the orga- nization including operations, marketing, facilities manage- ment, etc.
Why des MoJo strictly focus on single mothers instead of poverty across both sexes? It has been proven globally, through impact studies of mi- crofinance and other poverty-alleviating efforts, that im- proving the lives of the Mother of a family is the quickest way to improve the lives of the children. Although the Unit- ed States doesn’t have many of the same socio-economic challenges of developing nations where these studies have taken place, statistics still point to the fact that helping single mothers is the quickest route to improve the lives of poverty stricken children. In the US, over 85% of single parents are moms, and nearly 30% of those single moms live under the poverty line.
This
compares to only 15% of single parents in the US being fa- thers, and less than 13% of them living in poverty. On top of this, despite all the hard work by women’s rights advocated in the United States, women still make 10-20% less than men do on average. Additionally, one day of childcare in the United States costs more than one day of minimum wage pay making it nearly impossible for a single mom to work and put their child in a daycare at the same time. When you look at these facts and statistics it is clear that in order to help children cross the poverty line we need to help their mothers live a more sustainable life. Although the focus of MoJo is on single mothers, by no means do we discriminate against single fathers or men. The benefits offered to our employees (including free childcare, healthcare, and IRA matching) are equally beneficial to sin- gle fathers as they are single mothers, and we do have men (like myself) and single fathers employed at MoJo.
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