A recently divorced single mom gets approximately 45,000$ a year in welfare benefits alone without counting alimony and child support.

Edit: To clarify it is important to not take a statistic at face value ever. The statistic was calculated using a stratified sample and the name of the study is the welfare cliff. The average benefits was calculated using the median and the data point I used was the median benefits at an income of 0. Therefore their should be minimal bias.

Essentially single mothers get all the essentials provided to them. Food, Water,Schooling, Shelter, Internet.

The government pays them more benefits the less they work actively encouraging them to leech of the system.

Keep in mind they are not paying taxes.