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.
The problem with rent costs isn’t that people in this country aren’t working hard enough to earn a paycheck. It’s that rent is getting more and more expensive, while wages are stagnant. Passing the #RentReliefAct will help ease that burden.
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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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We have a
#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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