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More than 60% of Florida’s education staff professionals earn less than $35,000 a year, far below the $61,002 minimal living wage needed for a single parent with one child to have a modest standard of living.
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Andrew Spar, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
Olympic champion or not, Barbara Ann Cochran was a single parent raising a family on a schoolteacher’s salary that, every few years, kept getting slashed.
—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
Jolie initially applied for adoption as a single parent due to Vietnam's adoption regulations, although Pitt later adopted him as well.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
Yan, who raised Gu as a single parent, would drive her daughter from their San Francisco home to train in the Lake Tahoe area on the weekends, a four-hour trip each way.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 22 Jan. 2026
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Andrew Spar, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
Olympic champion or not, Barbara Ann Cochran was a single parent raising a family on a schoolteacher’s salary that, every few years, kept getting slashed.
—Zak Keefer, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
Jolie initially applied for adoption as a single parent due to Vietnam's adoption regulations, although Pitt later adopted him as well.
—Edward Segarra, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
Yan, who raised Gu as a single parent, would drive her daughter from their San Francisco home to train in the Lake Tahoe area on the weekends, a four-hour trip each way.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 22 Jan. 2026
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“Single parent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/single%20parent. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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