12-17-2013, 11:15 PM
Grateful11 wrote: On one hand it bothers me that people live like this but on the other hand I see this as a never ending cycle of working the system and sitting up your
children to be in the system is just wrong in my mind.
Seems like she got the short end.
Only once, when she was in her early 30s, had she lived without government assistance. She had moved her children into a two-bedroom apartment near the Southwest waterfront and signed a lease for $925, working as a home health aide during the day and as a prep cook at RFK Stadium at night. "Climbing the ladder," she said, but then came the reality of what that meant. The increase in her income disqualified her from food stamps, and buying food with cash left nothing to pay the gas bill, and cutting off the heat made the winter seem endless, and the combination of the cold house and the 60-hour workweeks aggravated her arthritis, damaged her heart and compelled her to quit work and apply for disability.
For some people, the game is rigged against them.