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Linkbomb!
But seriously, which one of those links says "40% of the 'Breadwinner' women in the USA earn between 17-23,000$ a year and bank on the state assistance?" I checked each one quickly and found nothing of the sort listed. And there are lots of problems with each one...
For example your first link is from 1995, nearly 20 years ago, before welfare reform, and it is about mothers who receive food stamps, not breadwinner moms. The word "breadwinner" does not appear in that link. In fact, "breadwinner" appears in none of the links you provided but the last link at least talks about female-headed households (different than "breadwinner" -- ["About 12 percent of women over age 18 were the heads of their households, meaning that they have children or other family members, but no spouse, living with them."]). That last link is from 1996. The 2007 Census I linked to shows the percentage of female HOH (NOT breadwinner, but HOH) earners between 15K and 25K (closest to the 17-23K you said) is actually 17.2%, not 40%, and there is no mention of how many of them are "banking on state assistance" (using loaded words like "banking on" is not very scientific, either).
The rest of your links show nothing but opinion pieces (from CNS News? Really?) and stats that do nothing that shows they lead to the conclusion you are making. In short, you just read things and decide "well that means X!" without one bit of corroborating evidence.