It doesn't help much that minimum wage is 1/3 of what a person needs to survive. "Southern economics" is all about keeping the poor dependent and unable to climb from poverty.
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Truth and I am a example of getting off the system five years ago and going to college and am starving because they think I made it but they are wrong.
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Say it again for the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" folks. Don't even mention trying to pay for student loans on top of that!
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Why my daughter lives with us
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#homeless problem in#Austin, TX. I never hear@JohnCornyn or@tedcruz talk about it ever. We are independent contractors for Medscope and we deliver&install a LifeAlert style device. Today I spoke to a homeless woman who was to receive this thru Medicaid -
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Im a teacher and my husband is a chef. We both work full time and up until this year, I worked a second job waitressing. With daycare at $1600 a month for 2 kids and rent over $1400 we just can’t do it.
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It's not just rent that we need relief from prices r going up on everything needed for daily life! Ppl r working 2-3 jobs just to feed their families!
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Yet, you have people talking "Get a better paying job!!!", as if that's so easy to do.
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Passing the kidney stone we call "president" will help ease that burden, too
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