Quote Originally Posted by freshstart View Post
And it's really time to stop criticizing "welfare" moms who never got the Work to Welfare programs they were promised. It makes no sense for a woman to earn minimum wage if she has to pay the majority of that on day care. It is wrong to say who can breed and who has to be sterilized chemically so as not to add to children living in poverty. Provide training, child care and these women will work. But we will never know this because this country devalues this population of women so much, it's sickening. As for Welfare Queens, dig a little deeper, they are, for the most part, an urban myth. .
thank you, the 'welfare moms' are people I work with. In fact until the last year our school district paid so low that half of our front line staff were on some type of social assistance. I now have many families who get the state child care assistance and they are working and doing great, I doubt they would be able to do all that they do for their kids without that support, and it is evaluated every year and a parent fee is set so the state also benefits from the parents getting better jobs, paying more into the system. I really like that grandparents who take their grandchildren get help through this system, several families have had the parents improve enough to take custody back which is a success.

Right now I am thinking a lot about Michigan, both the Detroit schools that have pictures posted of how they are crumbling but also the Flint water emergency. That is going to cause massive brain damage and learning disabilities in that city.