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You seem to think they all drop out at 10 years old and we need to pity them and support them financially regardless of their decisions.
If they are being raised in a home of drug addicted parents then call CPS and have them removed.
If they are coming to school hungry and not being fed, call CPS and have them removed.
If they are not coming to school, call CPS and have the parents brought to court.
Start making the parents responsible, accountable and punishable for their actions on their minor children.
Start taking away the children and expand foster care in the hopes you can change the kids.
All we ever want to do though is throw more money at these problems to keep them under the radar.
Ahahahaha, spoken like someone who NEVER votes to cut taxes and funding for public agencies, right?
Do you have ANY idea how hopelessly underfunded and overworked CPS agencies are, even in blue states?
Geez, warn me before you say something so silly next time so I can run get my Depends.
Please see my most recent post. Google it if you care. Teenagers still have horrifyingly wrong beliefs about sexuality. But believe what your agenda tells you.
And that is with sex education and free condoms and accessibility to contraceptives..all at school.
The question that begs for attention is: Why are so many American's working minimum wage jobs? The answer is much larger than the current economic downturn......this is about the number of unskilled American's seeking jobs. Why are there so many unskilled and uneducated people to begin with?
How about those people who have been laid off their jobs after 10-20 years of service? How about the men and womyn who have served in the military and once they are out they try to find a job? How about the newly graduated students who took the time to be educated and get their degrees and now they are out trying to find a job? No one WANTS to work a minimum wage job, but if no one else wants to hire you how else can you pay bills and continue to live if you don't take what you can get? I have a degree and after I graduated I ended up waiting tables because in my field they want you to have 5+ years of working experience. I had a internship as well at a public relations firm, I worked during my time in college as well since I was a single parent. Currently I am furthering my education even more because jobs in my field want me to have a masters and or a phd as well. But then what else, I have student loans to pay off as well. I've gotten scholarships but they do not account for everything. I'm still working on it though. Thankfully I have a contract job at the moment.
Ahahahaha, spoken like someone who NEVER votes to cut taxes and funding for public agencies, right?
Do you have ANY idea how hopelessly underfunded and overworked CPS agencies are, even in blue states?
Geez, warn me before you say something so silly next time so I can run get my Depends.
Right..so we just keep pouring money into government programs to subsidize these people.
Underfunded or over taxed..either way you are going to pay for it and the numbers are growing, not shrinking.
And that is a major problem for the Democrats..how to raise revenue to continue to fund these growing programs.
The "welfare state" is running out of money.
Please see my most recent post. Google it if you care. Teenagers still have horrifyingly wrong beliefs about sexuality. But believe what your agenda tells you.
Then why should they believe teachers, or care? Typical dumbazz teens believe what they want and do what they want anyway. It's what they see in the home and what is cool in the media that has the most effect. Many kids think teachers are losers because they don't make big money and are forced to tolerate abuse from students and parents so the respect isn't there.
It won't raise them out of poverty because goods and service prices will rise. A certain segment of the population will always live in poverty. Unfortunately, it is more likely to happen to single minority mothers and their children than any other demographic. You want to truly battle poverty? Encourage marriage and hold fathers accountable. Two adults can combine their resources therefore creating a better standard of living and environment in which to raise a child than one adult. Fathers are not expendable.
The other thing worth noting is that what we consider poverty is often a higher standard of living than middle class people have in other countries. http://www.timbro.se/bokhandel/pdf/9175665646.pdf
Because having a kid outside of marriage is not seen as bad.
And one can depend on the government to subsidize your finances.
In some cases being a single mother is your way out to having your own apartment.
There is a mindset among some poor that would boggle your mind when you heard it.
Working among poor kids in the schools has educated me beyond any MSM article or study.
And you realize that this is all they know; this is how they were raised, this is how their friends live, this is how their relatives live and this is how they will live.
AUSTIN, Texas — Raising the minimum wage to a living wage begins the cycle of lifting single mothers out of poverty, according to a policy report released by the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis (IUPRA) at The University of Texas at Austin.
The U.S. census shows more Americans — 46.2 million people — are living in poverty than ever before. And for African American and Hispanic women, a full-time minimum wage job isn’t enough to break out of the poverty cycle. According to the report, working women of color make $0.64 and $0.56, respectively, for every dollar white men earn.............................
Raising wages, forces raising cost to the consumer. Putting the price, no longer in reach of some.
Lost revenue, and more overhead, means I'm going to have to let several employees go, so I can stay in business, making a profit to keep the doors open.
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