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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great. When there already aren’t enough workers, people will get to buy a handle of vodka & Netflix & chill. Dumb public policy. [/quote]

Riiiiight, because $800/month is enough to live the good life in MoCo. $800 would get you a shared room in a basement. Ten years ago.

However, it COULD make the difference for someone who needs to fix their car to get to a job interview, to not have to choose between utilities and groceries, or not have to ration insulin and die.[/quote]

Why do you hate poor people? Give them skills to move up not money.  Noone should have to be a dependent of the state.[/quote]

Skills to move up. Right, a single mother with three minimum wage jobs and no childcare should just learn to code. Why didn’t we think of that?[/quote]

How many single mothers are there with three minimum wage jobs and no childcare?  Our country already has many, many safety net programs for situations like this, including: Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, Earned Income Tax Credit, Section 8, Head First, subsidized cell phones, subsidized child care, Pell Grants, subsidized student loans, and on and on.

And a person who is working a minimum wage job is absolutely learning skills that can help her move up.  Work at McDonalds?  [b]Move up to become a Shift Manager and then Assistant Manager.  Use their scholarship program to take classes, etc.  [/b]

Our entrenched underclass is not due to lack of a safety net.  It is due to poor K-12 education, mental health problems, substance abuse, lack of work requirements and a continuing in-flow of uneducated immigrants.[/quote]
DP... I can tell you don't know what it's like to be poor and have little kids. I grew up like this.

When do you think a single mother with young children has time to work FT, and take classes?  Heck, I'm married with a higher income, and I would be too tired to take classes after working FT and dealing with little children.  If I had to take public transport to/from my job, to get groceries, I would have zero energy to take classes at night.  I spend the weekend now shuttling the kids around, running errands, and cooking for the coming week.

Low income typically have no access to laundry machines in their homes, so they spend the weekends or nights at the laundromat  with their little kids.

I urge you to get involved with programs that deal with low income people.  As the saying goes, being poor is expensive.[/quote]

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