Quote Originally Posted by frugal-one View Post
catherine…as noted above, I was expounding on IL post about purchasing a house. Obviously, it is not a prerequisite in life…. nor is college. But being very young and uneducated and having children has proven to be a more difficult or impossible endeavor (in today’s world especially) unless receiving government or family aid. With the recent republican recommendations of cutting food stamps and other child enrichment programs… it will only be more difficult. What jobs as a 17 year old do you know of that pay well (and your definition of paying well) and how many of them are available? And, catherine, you right in that there are no rules but why encourage hardship and possibly poverty … that was what I took from Alan’s previous post as being sick.
You mention chatter in Congress to cut food stamps, but you ignore the actual cutting of food stamps that went on in this White House administration. Now there are reasons for that, and I happen to agree with them, but in the interest of fairness I mention that food stamps have been actually cut in early 2023.