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The data about housing assistance applies to households, not individuals. [b]Plus the argument was that girls have babies and then get free housing [/b]-- so Grandma, two kids, and their kids in a one-bedroom apartment wouldn't be relevant anyway.

But if you want to disregard the data, ok.

You can look up the comparable data for Virginia, or disregard it too.[/quote]

That is not the argument being made.  I was pointing out that girls living in poverty who are on the cusp of young adulthood face choices that in my upper middle class lifestyle I nor my children will ever have to consider.

These young women are going to be expected to get a job to help start supporting whatever family they are living with. That part time job at Burger King is expected to pay household expenses.  That's way different than my child getting a retail job where the money he/she earns would go towards whatever my kid wanted.

When they are looking at adulthood and choices, how do they afford an apartment on min wage? How do they afford to feed themselves?

It's not about getting free housing, it's about having to make choices that will give them basic needs.  Can you imagine how scary it must be to realize that you are almost 18, your parents are pretty much saying you need to get out and support yourself, you have no idea how to do that or what it entails so you looks around to your friends and they start telling you how they did it and  you suddenly see a way out of your predicament.
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The PP you're quoting seems to have no clue as to what life is actually like for these girls and what kinds of choices they are making.  Statistics are fine, but they never tell the whole picture.

What we're doing now is obviously not working for anyone, but the PP's solution is to simply throw more money at the issue in the hopes that somehow that will make things different for the communities involved.  [/quote]

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