In Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Kahtoya Wesley, 20, has had difficulty finding a job, but she has a better chance of finding work now because she has joined the Summer Youth Employment Program, according to WPBF-TV in West Palm Beach.

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She has been joined by other single mothers from around the country and threatens a hunger strike unless the welfare payments are restored.

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She said when she had first joined she did not have a lot of experience apart from doing embroidery at home but she has learnt on the job.

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She has little love of the media, which she once nearly joined before opting for the civil service, and rarely gives interviews unless on a topic of her own choice.

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She was joined by Neil Hallsworth, a veteran cameraman who has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel, and Tim Crockett, a former special forces officer to handle security and who would also become an unofficial stills photographer.

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Since 1996, when she joined the KP health department as a health worker, she has been able to provide food and clothing for the family.

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She joined the U.S. Navy Corps in 1996 as a nurse, and has served at military medical facilities around the world. as a pre-doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, her research is focused on traumatic brain injury.

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Since topping the Sound of 2011 list, Jessie J's album Who You Are has gone on to be the biggest-selling debut album of the year in the UK. She was joined in the top five by James Blake, The Vaccines, Jamie Woon and Clare Maguire.

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