What the govenrment really needs to do is focus more on re-educating able-minded adults so that they can find better jobs and less people would be dependent on these programs and they would be able afford daycare. My mom is a single mom of two kids and a few times when she was between jobs or even had 2 jobs but was barely scraping by she tried to get assistants but they said she made too much or wasn't eligable. My mom was on a waiting list for re-education on unemployment for the last year (they only accept the first 200 at a time and she was placed in the 400's) where she could still collect unemployment while she went to school but when she final got excepted they canceled the program (because of the budget cuts) and her unemployment is going to run out soon ... if she went back to school on her own with financial aid she wouldn't be eligable to collect unemployment, She is in her 50s and never went to college; she always worked at resturants but after she got laid off it's been hard for her to find a long-term job. So apparently the government would much rather you just stay in your slump and look for another dead end job for only minimum wage (when you would get paid more if you collected unemployment) and be on an endless waiting list than just help them get into a program they could finish in less than a year and have better luck finding a job.

Also most adults only make minimum wage and the national MW hasn't caught up to the cost of living. Though some states and even some cities do have higher minimum wage (usually because their COL is higher but still not really enough to suppliment a good enough living). Heck, in the FCC field you make less than minimum wage (per child/family) and people are always complaining about the cost.

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