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Last time I checked the SES families all have smartphone, brand new sneakers, north face and more.  But yet, we pay for their kids meals.  Like you said, it is a lifestyle.  If you are taught that you don't have to work hard to succeed, you never will.  Welfare will help you get the things you need so you can have your money for things that you "want."  The system is broke.  That is the issue.  Kids mimic their families, families are attached to a system that caters to them and never forces them off or watches what they do/spend with the money they do have.  That will never ever change unless government assistance starts to offer mandatory volunteering or educational training for assistance received.  See that you have applied to x amount of places and follow up.  If these are done, your assistance starts going down off a sliding scale.  Then maybe there will be more people accountable for themselves and start teaching their kids the same thing.  [/quote]

[b]Checked with who?[/b]  I work in a Title 1 school, very few of my kids have any of the things you describe, nor do their parents.  It is not uncommon for families not to have phones at all, or to have phones that only have texting privileges and can't make calls.

Volunteering or job training is mandatory for families who receive TANF, unless they meet very specific requirements such as a mother with a newborn, or a person with certain disabilities.  The job training is often very inflexible, and I'm often in the position of calling a mother to pick up a sick child, and having to fill out documentation to prove that the mother had a valid reason for leaving "work".  I've also had parents "fired" from job training, which means a period of no cash benefits, because they came to school for a meeting after being told no by a supervisor.

I should also add that things are changing, there has been a dramatic decline in this country in the number of families receiving cash benefits, even while supports such s food stamps that are aimed at the working poor have increased.

Honestly, when people talk about how they know that all Low SES families have smart phones or North Face, I have to wonder if they're just noticing a few black or brown people with smart phones or North Face and adding their own personal stereoptypes to assume that they must be on TANF.  [/quote]

PP read it on the Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/woman-a-leading-authority-on-what-shouldnt-be-in-p,35922/

[i]With her remarkable ability to determine exactly how others should be allocating their limited resources for food, local woman Carol Gaither is considered to be one of the foremost authorities on what poor people should and should not have in their grocery carts, sources said Thursday...[/i][/quote]

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