Poverty Rates Surge in American Suburbs | MetroFocus
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- On this edition of MetroFocus, PBS NewsHour Weekend's Megan Thompson reports on the growing problem of poverty in America's suburbs. On the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson's declaration of a "War on Poverty," Thompson takes us to Suffolk County, Long Island to meet Leigh Scozzari, a mother of two, living below the poverty line.
"Poverty in these kinds of communities can be hidden," Elizabeth Kneebone, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of "Confronting Suburban Poverty in America," tells Thompson. "It can be harder to identify or even understand the extent to which need has grown, because it may not be easily visible."
In a conversation with MetroFocus host Rafael Pi Roman about her reporting on Long Island, Thompson says she found local officials struggling to help the suburban poor while the federal and local governments are facing huge deficits. Thompson says, "This is obviously a huge problem for Suffolk County and localities across the country. I think one issue is changing perceptions, so when it's time to allocate this limited pot of money it's going to the people who really need it."
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Cost of living keeps going up while wages are stagnant. That's the real problem.
Negative. Wages are ok where they are, it's everything else that needs to come down. 60 years ago we earned less than today ( in numbers ) and it was cheaper to live. Government fucked it all up by interfering in people's lives. Gotta return favors to those that buy up politicians.
Wages are stagnant. You are 1000% right.
It doesn't matter, because if passages go up then the cost of everything goes up double. We are on a hamster wheel!
That's supposed to say wages
@@bmw803 how the fuk can you say wages are okay wages are far from okay you stupid fuking idiot wages are no where near enough compared to the cost of living FACT
$19K per year?? Ohh gosh that is tight..God bless her..hope she is doing better in 2018.
Still not poverty. Lower class. But not poverty. Go to South America or Africa. That’s real poverty.
She would have to go to nursing school or something to get a better job.
@@GuestUA-camUser $19,000 year will do wonders in a part of the world ware you can get a nice place for $250/ month.
Better than nothing!!! Just saying.
@@richardbowers3647 ware??? She's not living in Panama she's in New Jersey
This in a country that spends $ 700 billion a year on military to maintain its global empire, and which thinks nothing of bailing out Wall Street banks, forking over trillions of dollars, no questions asked. If this isn't social and political decline, I don't know what is.
Bob Jones 700 billion a year is a drop in the bucket to what they really spend!
The oligarch-controlled government pours money down these rat holes specifically so they can deny Americans access to those funds.
Drug Cartels Make $64 Billion a Year from U.S.
You're spot on, but it's not an excuse to subsidize anybody. When you subsidize, you create irresponsible recipients and a depenent society. She doesn't have the right to be subsidized for anything just as much as those assholes you named deserve even less. What this country needs is to go back to its grassroots. GET THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT OUT OF OUR LIVES. It's so intrusive in everything that we're paralyzed. With the exception of those cocksuckers you named, because they pay off those traitors. Oooops Honorable congressmen and women.
@ungratefulmetalpansy Who said food inspections or highways arent needed? It's how its managed that's the problem.
How about the boys that impregnated these women step up and take charge, paying for the kids they made!?
They are both at fault, women and men should be more judicious who they have sex with.
they don't know who they are I would think
Would be great if child support was easy to receive and it was NOT considered as public assistance.
@Helen Hines what about divorce o yeah cause 50% of people do it. I guess stay with a loser is better than alone. WOW
@steven roscoe this guilt trip is why blacks Jews Hispanics and Asian will replace you. No matter how you feel your dying off, at least her kids are white
The government would rather let these foreclosed house’s rot than let people live in them.
this is why u prepare during good times. improve your game when hard times hit u better able to weather the storm
U can’t really say that unless your rich just saying 😏
I agree when times are good save whatever you can even if it's just $10 or $20 here and there it can be done. I don't have a mortgage or car payment or any debt I live on Social Security earning 1069 a month I take 200 right off the top and put that straight to a savings then I pay my bills I take whatever's left divide that by how many weeks my social security check must last mostly it's four weeks sometimes five and that's what I have to live on if I have anything at the end of the month I put that into savings. Most Social Security checks are larger than mine some are smaller.
"Rich gettin richer, poor getting poor".
If you are still in the middle, make up your mind...quick...
Ralph Bernhard there isn't much middle left!
There is are no rich, and there are no poor. There are only workers and owners. Master and slave. Lord and Peasant. Oppressor and oppressed.
Fellow Traveler more like - dumb and smart. Planners and non-planners.
That's the way it is in New York you can never get ahead
Where is the father of these children?
yeah the shift is single moms with kids, the family is a broken deal
I am having one of the best financial years of my life, but I am living like I am not. Why, saving saving saving. I think we have become a generation of over consumption. I myself am disgusted with all the money I've wasted. I am sorry you all are struggling. Hope things get better.
I came back to Florida from an area not far from this one, due to the cost of living up there. Gas, housing, heating, food and state taxes all buried me, even though I worked for the county in a great job, paying over $30,000 a year. I took a hit of 1/3 of my income, but could afford to build a house here easily, near the water and beach, even. No state taxes, good transportation if I needed it, reasonable prices for food and no tax on food. I do not understand why people stay in expensive areas like this and struggle. Same with California. No one but the wealthy can live there.
30,000 a year is not a great job
What year was this? $30k is not a great paying job in my books especially in Long Island so I can see why you were struggling.
How’s that working out with the insurance crisis and much sharper inflation that Florida has been experiencing recently?
@@euenfheiejrj This is nearly 10 years old.
It’s really ridiculous that you pay into a system for years and years and then when you need it because you fall on hard times you have to jump through hoops and go to hell just get any help and it’s ridiculous. It’s a lot better than the people who never paid into the system yet constantly reap the benefits of it. If I had to pick what I would rather my tax dollars go to support it would be the person who works for a living not the person who don’t.
No way she is 30
Shes a big LIAR, which is one of her biggest problems. Liars always have their lives fall apart
Once the manufacturing jobs started to disappear, so did the middle class. We used to be able to live on one paycheck. Bring back some good paying jobs!!
Holly B
Used to not have kids you can't afford as well.
I still live on one paycheck and it's called Social Security and I think I'm doing fine
We have a firm in my home town in England, they took east Europeans directly from Poland, wage was £10 ph. Firm complained that they couldnt pay any more its the business they are in.... Brexit comes along and many of the polish people left suddenly they can pay £15.75 ph...... Its the scarcity of people
this is an interesing piece, and especially relevant regarding the ridiculous lack of public transportation on long island, but from another view, it could also just be thought of as "the rising standard in living"
thatwasprettyneat
Rising standard of financial stupidity.
That was a thought of mine also
7k taxes for that house? I have a 4 bedroom home on 14.4 acres in rural Tennessee and pay less than 800.00 per year. Granted, I live in a county that has very little to offer in the way of services, but geez. 7 thousand a year. Move.
Obviously it’s different all around the country. I’m in MA and the prices are outrageous. Not everyone can afford or have the luxury to just pick up and move 🙄
Do you work ?
The school system is good in Long Island and there’s train access to the city and some other services.
well yeah…. but u live in Tennessee where there’s like no job openings
Glad I escaped the Northeast suburban living long ago. The bottom line to survive there is fucking insane. Property taxes, vehicle taxes, state income taxes, gas prices and everything else is expensive to match. You can't retire there unless you are rich.
You want to create jobs, make some of these foreclosed houses into daycare centers and make them free to family’s so they can work worry free. You will have created jobs and the houses would be taken care of.
People are moving from city to suburbs looking for better life but they don't know it's very hard to living in suburb they do develop residence area but they don't create the job so poverty rates surge in suburbs
Stop paying subsidies to farmers to not raise crops. CRP @ $65.00 an acre and most of the time it’s a 1,000 acres. You do the math. Then what crops we do raise we sell to China. What we don’t sell ends up in gasoline and cow feed!
Oh my. Poverty has taken a toll on her face. I'm a year older than her and look ten years younger than she does
@Tracchofyre oh my god yes!!
its called karma. Bad things happen to bad people, I love it
@@Dre2Dee2 why would you say she's a bad person?
30 years old she looks 44
dachicagoan lol 40 yr olds dont get sugar daddies
And she has a shit load of make up on.
That is a hard life that is what it does to you.
That's what stress does to you. She mentions in the vid that she worries constantly. When you work 6-7 days a week at multiple jobs to stay in one place it takes a toll on your health. That's the effect American "capitalism" has on people.
Marcus Hill that's how white people do
30? She looks 45!
Yeah.. she doesn't look 30
Stress will do that to ya
Go to Africa/Asia,and you will know the true meaning of the word POVERTY
Irresponsibility is the problem.
People need to understand when America empire falls the people have no one to look down or critizie
Same story. Single mom. No child support or marriage. A road to poverty. I feel sorry for all of them. Bad choices.
yet she has a Pandora bracelet and a shit load of charms?
maybe it was a gift or a knock off
I always notice details like this.
Maybe she collected those things years ago before having money issues?
PianoDisneygal10
The reason why she always had money issues.
Fair point there, perhaps, BlackWorldTraveler. Smarter use of her finances might have helped. Or she might still have ended up in this situation regardless.
I see more eco villages have to pop up.I can only pray someone smart will take a community garden as an option fr food. Growing food selling it selling trees and seedlings. That is the only way. Not to.mention all the food thrown in the trash on purpose.
Poverty douse not always look like poverty I've known people that couch hopped and always had a roof that were unemployed and were just as poor as people under bridges
Where is the father? Bad decisions lead to bad consequences.
Living outside the USA and having travelled Africa and SE Asia , I always find videos on "poverty" in the USA very strange .
Yeah it's called relative poverty
It's becoming worse by the day. Remember the American dream? Was there an African dream everyone thought they could have?
Stop letting kids quit school at 16. That should be against the law and parents should not ever let their kids quit school. Education lifts you up non education pushes you down.
Most Americans can't afford a 500 dollar emergency
Sadly I think it's like 40%. 4 out of 10. Go back 200 years roughly only 40% of people could read and write. If that were still the case in the 21st century that only 4 out of the next 10 people you say good morning too as you pass buy on the sidewalk had the ability to read and write we'd say WE HAVE A PROBLEM THAT REQUIRES FIXING RIGHT NOW 60% of our nation's citizens are illiterate. So when I put into perspective it's a crisis we bearly aknowlage.
It’s hard out there
The suburban poverty rate has got to be worse off now because of the coronavirus pandemic!
Her Car is a Honda with 200K it’s not even broken in yet. Change the oil on time that SUV can last forever
So much winning I'm tired of it!
I must be a genius. I knew how NOT to get pregnant while dating my husband to be in college. I swallowed a pill. Nothing to it. When intelligent women CHOOSE to get pregnant without the love and support of the father then what on Earth do they expect? I am a compassionate woman. I truly hope all the best for this lovely lady and her beautiful twin girls. I also expect her to take responsibility for her chosen actions. The majority of people, me included, simply cannot afford to have our taxes raised to take of her children.
Oh Aaron, your stupidity is showing. Not to mention your obvious lack of education. You must be a "baby daddy" and not paying a cent in child support. Loser.
really!! i truly hope you end up with a perfect life and nothing unexpected happens, like a death or illness or someone who you think is the love of your life and perfect, doesnt suddenly up and walk out one day. and fyi. you didnt need to say you expect her to take care of her responsibilities. shes working, paying tax. what's the problem.
Raylene, The problem is I am not a wealthy woman. I cannot afford to have my taxes raised to help her take care of her daughters. She chose to have sex. She chose not to use birth control. She chose to keep her daughters knowing she couldn't afford to take of them. WHERE IS THE FATHER? By law he must pay child support, but if she doesn't force him to then she's forcing the rest of us to financially help her. So what if she works. You want to give her a gold star?! That is what a parent does. I see you are in another country. You are not helping her at all. I am. BTW, my life is far from perfect. I have to work hard to help take care of people I don't know.
I'm not surprised. What woman would want a loser like you?
I don't any more. I'm 62. But I still knew how NOT to get pregnant. And you were very mean, rude and judgmental.
Another problem not mentioned is the fact that car dependent suburbia is financially unproductive. The tax dollars raised are not enough to cover fire protection, ambulance, pipes, wires, asphalt, sidewalks etc. So not only is the local and state government losing money with all these maintenance costs, but they need to constantly borrow money or take out loans from the federal government.
Long Island needs more public transportation. Car dependent design is finally showing its flaws.
I literally saw a documentary like this about a women. They have so many parallels: single mom, certified medical assistant, lives on welfare...What likely happened is that she got into a relationship with a guy early in life. Both her and the guy didn't take school seriously, and the relationship ended up not working out. This forced the woman to some how provide for herself and the children (become the breadwinner).
Nnenna A bull has still there and they scam the TAX SYSTEM!!! HE STILL WITH THEM!!
She didnt get into a relationship early in life, because those children would be in late teens or 20s.
Her kids are 5 and 6, which means she had her kids when she was 40 like an IDIOT
My mama told me when she worked a job that she will not make more money from a job because we will lose our food money. She was raising me and the job increase was only a couple hundred in poverty income.
Where is the father?
My aunt was like her had to raise two girls on her own in Suffolk county but that was in the 1980s I don't know if it was harder or easier than now
He left her and can't send money to support his kids so... WHAT are you on about?
*My 94 Fleetwood has 190,000 miles on it and it runs strong.* Bought it 10 years ago on my birthday right before graduating HS. I learn to fix it and maintain it. All the money I saved from not purchasing a newer car was used to purchase a house 3 years ago.
People living in poverty are a joke, especially those in suburbs of expensive states like NY.
dachicagoan whew Thank you Jesus! I did a sketch which was of Johnson who declared we needed war on poverty some pay attention early prophesy to come others think they’ll never be affected and snoting why they shouldnt Help!!!🙏🏾☝️💡bulb moment it can happen to you!
There is NO WAY this woman is 30 years old
Actually poverty and the anxiety, and depression, which often follows as a result can age you rather quickly.
This woman is a big LIAR, this is why her life is all screwed up. She's 44
@@martinglenn4250 good, thats called karma
its LONG ISLAND! its expensive af! i used to lived in Brooklyn, i didnt need a car, and my rent was decent enough that i COULD make it on single income with child when i was using public transportation DAILY
i don't have a car.. she does...
Nobodu responding seems to lack compassion. I pray for people sucj ad her to receive help she needs.
jay deleon with 200,000 miles on it
You bigots probably live in your grandma's basement ..can't get any job..and can't even get a date with 5 fingered Mary...You bigots are pathetic..
Penny Proud GOOD GOD...YOU are criticizing this woman's looks?...
DEAR GOD LOOK IN YOUR MIRROR...LAWSEY!
An so your credits worse or you cant afford to do research
Capitalism has brought this country to its knees.
They have made the poorest of the poor almost totally dependent on our social service system, without any consequences. In other words, our Federal and state policies. The government has to change our too lenient policies. The system now, is unsustainable..
30yr old single mother. 30???? I'm 52 and I look younger than her. wth!!!
spirals 73
Those kids are wearing her out.
Stress wears you down really quick.
I can guarantee you, at 52 , you don't look younger than her. Dream on.
Good you botox
Waiting for the next one - "Wealthy politicians are surging in extra funding!!!" Just saying.
rural poverty is so much worst
Poverty in America!! Unheard of poverty should end for ever.
Luz Figueroa
Self made it seems when you poop out babies you can't afford.
Poverty is so hard to live in
$19k/year is so damn poor. I am single, making $80k/year and I still feel poor. My net income is $4.7k/month. Bills total up to $1200. I save $2500 and live on $1000 for food, fun, etc. I still feel poor. I need to make $160k/year to be middleclass.
KO Investing no you don’t holy shit
Nice flex
Unless you have a family with 10 kids you're doing okay
Wich I just re-read you don't
You call that poverty?
Come see other countries; Philippines, Afghanistan, etc.
I don´t think the US want to compare themselves to these shitholes.
DrSleazoid
They should.
KHAIRUL AZHAR KHOURUDIN it's US poverty like look how her car is older than 5-10 years old and how she lives with her mother and how she only makes 19k a year most Americans make a combined 80k-100k a year and have newer cars and a larger newer house that isn't there mothers house but they own
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se The grandmother inherited that house and the Mom does pay rent.
Most countries are poorer than the US, that's true. But in the richest country on earth why are there so many people still living in poverty?
The suburbs were not designed for the consideration of poor people. I’m glad they brought up transportation, because living in the suburbs means you would have to have the luxury of being able to afford a car, insurance, and fuel just to get around. And many people who are in a tight budget who barely get by have to allocate money for food for the car instead. Which is stupid. The very little money poor people have should go to food and healthcare. If only there was affordable and reliable public transportation.
$600 billion on defence ? how much on welfare ?
It is sad. Yet. The US has inspired me that it is the free country that gave The World. The Peace Movement.
All videos about poverty in US shows a single mom with kids. Since the divorces grower up mostly countries get in bad shape due the government assistance grow up with single mom and kids.
7:04 that is exactly the truth ( ill bet she will go with Peace)
This country misrepresents the word and lifestyle of what poverty really consists of.Many of the things that are needed in life don’t come easy for us but we are far from living in poverty.Owning a home or townhome and driving an automobile isn’t living in poverty.Many people just expect life to consist of certain things and if they don’t have those things this country calls it poverty.Many Americans are just too prideful because there are programs and services that many of you pay your government taxes for that you don’t utilize.Many of you have a warped way of equating your value.And you see asking for help as a handout.How is it a handout if you have payed for the services to be there when you need them?No one has to go without unless you chose to.
She lives a 11 miles from me.
How are they doing now?
Let people have chickens in suburbs
They do in Miami lol
@@barbaravyse660 Chicago too, but not most of the suburbs, they are almost like HOAs trying to control things
That Honda can go 350,000 miles
Poverty or lack of responsibility?
Stupidity or lack of education?
Victim or arrogant fool?
Independent woman or a total failure at life?
Give us your poor you're tired you're hungry 🇺🇲 that's inherently unsustainable : but all those poor and tired and hungry need jobs and in America that means farming and farming means exporting food to other countries where they pop out kids because why not there's enough food. . . Like dominoes
Medical assistant with no health benefits.Absolutely disgusting...only in America and very low pay of 19000 a year smh
This video old
Lots of people live pay check to pay check... cry me a river! Having enough to make it to the next payday is how most people have to live-she’s not special! Subsidized daycare is a blessing so stop moaning! Why isn’t the girls’ dad stepping up??
Honestly, she could survive and still make a saving if she just be frugal on her spending and don't take a loan from BANK..banking system today is what make you poor. They entice you with an easy fix on financial but the truth is, they just drag you to the debt.
Don't use credit card to support your living. My parent survive with only 1000 dollar a month and still make a saving to buy a foreclosure piece of land, lived on it and when the price is up they sell it and make profit and starting from that they create their own wealth. People need to understand that there are no quick fix and you need to be patient and frugal.
So, where's the Father of her girls, track him down and make him pay, garnish his wages, it's easy to find people.
We have 2 problems with child support. 1) a lot of guy's are in prison. As so obviously child support can't be collected
2) it's a % of income. 34% for 3 or more kids. So let's say some fool has 6 different kids by 6 different women. Guys like this aren't too bright obviously. So let's assume he's in society as apposed to in prison. He isn't likely to have some high paying job. So just to make our math easy to fallow let's say for example he takes home $1,000/ month. OKAY the government takes 34% of that $340 for child support. WELL that $340 must then be ÷ up and distributed amongst all 6 woman. That's just over $60/ month.
As so what we fail to realize is even when child support is collected it's a null point.
We don't know the spacifics of this situation. But we have to ask ourselves dose the father have other kids with other women also besides her? And if so how many?
So just maybe she's collecting child support buts it's not very much for the reason I outlined.
I was in orphanage 3yaers old McClaren hall in Elmont e California orphanage 3yaers old Los Angeles County court house 🏠
30? that can't be right! 45 perhaps. Where is the kids father?
Draining her of resources in child support court
2023 and still the same problems in America but worse.
Carroll from the food pantry is fine!!
Move to Washington state tons of jobs here.
Jobs that pay livable wages?
I think another problem is wealthy people live above their means and thus affects us.
Dependent on government resources
sadly all the taxes are paid by middle or upper middle class.
Very Rich and Very poor are basically kind of living tax free. So the load falls under us
That problem is a global problem.
I am afraid of driving baby honda too
Ya know, they didn't care about the poor and homeless. I'm sure they never donated or spent time in their local food bank. Now they know a LITTLE about being poor and becoming poor. Bet they care about the poor now, because they are now. There are children starving and homeless in this country, a country like ours should not have poor and homeless. When they had millions, they never worried about aid, food stamps or being homeless. Welcome to the real world. These people were part of the problem, now I have to feel bad for them, overspending, high debt and caring nothing about anyone but them self? Don't think so. Maybe now they will work to solve this American problem.
Woman at 5:29 has the most beautiful hair I’ve ever seen on a Caucasian woman 😍
Poverty is when one does not know where his or her next dollar is coming from to afford a middle-class standard of living. Government is the issuer of money and also controls the money supply. Government can ensure nothing less than a middle-class standard of living to all its citizens. My video - poverty eradication worldwide/michael samuel - can be viewed on youtube.
So shes a walfar queen or is that reserved for black women only?
It's ruff on now bugga bears 🐻 🐻❄ stories 🐻 🐻❄ 🐼
War on poverty - just give up. The policies to “end poverty” all failed.
For some reason, poverty in the U.S. means not keeping up with the Joneses. That woman did not look poor, nor her children. Sad that the "families in the suburbs" do not know the definition of poverty.
God is very angry, WEF must go quickly possible. Freedom, Liberte, God bless truckers. If that Germany is poor means that the world in poor. The world is waiting the Nurember n.2. The world people must prepare/buid a lot of prisons.
Cost of living rises while wages stay stagnant blah blah blah this 30 year old single mom should look for a better paying job. Stop blaming everyone and take control of your situation. Opportunity is out there. America is STILL the land of milk and honey.. you just have to take an extra minute to look for YOUR chance.
Three comments: 1. Ladies breaking their marriages in huge numbers is part of the problem. 2. The selfish greed of the rich and super rich is also destroying the nation. 3. The huge amount of money spent on "defence" if not spent there, could easily rebuild and revitalise the country.
Bob Jackson Yeah, we should all stay in miserable marriages with woman-beating losers. Oh, wait-We were supposed to know that these guys would behave this way in advance (via our crystal balls?), when we were courting and he behaved like a prince. Or would you say that men who seem like “good men” upfront are red flags? Come on. Most people play nice until that ring goes on; then their true colors start showing once they think they’ve trapped you with a baby and a contract. Screw that! We’d rather be poor than beaten. That, pal, is REAL courage.
State Slave .....Good point. Narcissists are everywhere including females, but there are more males. Stats say about 8% of men are narcs. From looking back at so many people I knew in the past 40 years, as well as commenters often mentioning at least one in their family, that number could be higher. Everything you said describes how narcs lovebomb their prey to start the relationship. This topic has never been brought up in the last 30 years of major media news I've watched. Yes....no exaggeration. I even do my own research by talking to people. Most barely know about how to recognize a narc if they knew one. Once again, the media is hiding real news. So many people in powerful positions are there because narcs love power and control. This is why this huge problem is not getting the exposure it should by the corporate owned media. People here are only commenting about what they see here. The devil is in the details, as always. The media has carefully crafted a false reality versus educating society on the real world we live in. Puppet masters like us as naive as possible. See no evil...hear no evil.....thanks to the deception game by the media. This should be brought to every students attention in high school too starting decades ago. Why? Look at the millions of people who are affected severely by narcs every year. If you include the children of narcs (who are more likely to carry severe emotional scars and even become narcs) over 50 million americans per year are effected. Yet zippo news coverage. America is so corrupt in ways most people do not have a clue about.
@@KamalasNotLikeUs 👏👏👏
@@KamalasNotLikeUs I know right should we stick around to become the victims of the "chris watts's" of the world??? Always blame the woman huh thats what the good ole US loves to do!
Breaking a marriage, well why would she do that? He cheats, he beats her, he rapes the children, he has a drug addiction, he is not working and can and won't help? Why o why BREAK A MARRIAGE
Its 2018 is it better nowadays?
Abdul Eb it’s the same
nothing new.
I make 6 figures, I live paycheck to paycheck sometimes.
Earning more = spending/sharing more.
sure I can save some money, but things get complicated when you actually start living the struggling persons life.
Slaves...
This to me is so sad. It isn’t like the girl isn’t working, it’s not like the girl didn’t have schooling. This is sad
WAIT!!!! "She doesn't know how she is going to pay for college for her kids". We are NOT responsible for any kids to go to college. Also- she is "turning down raises" to commit fraud??? So tired of the ENTITLEMENT THING. If mom is at home, she can find a second job for weekends and her mom can watch the girls.
Shame on you. You need to be put into a situation where you have to make hard choices while people like you sneer at them.
Sooo...what's her end-game here? She's living with mom, on public assistance for food and child care, and (understandably) struggling to keep her head above water. What i don't hear anything of here is how she's working to better her situation. As low-income, she should get basically a free ride through college. She lives with her mom, who helps with childcare sometimes. So why isn't her behind in school at night to work on a nursing degree or whatever makes sense for her, so she's not in this exact spot in another 10 years? Made bad decisions with career and children, says how hard it is, does nothing to improve her situation.
Anyone who thinks a college degree is a guarantee of a secure financial future is building a house on shifting sand. There are no more certainties in our lives, just a quiet scramble to do whatever is necessary to survive.
She has no end game. SHe has never had a plan, EVER. She is counting on her mom to bail her out which is what her mom has done her entire life.
The Boomer Generation should be called the Bailout Generation. They dig the hole, you bail em out! Thats the plan!
Where are the girls father? She probably slept with a married or attached man and didn’t think ahead.