If they are that low income they can recieve food stamps.

The school are probably open because of $. They need so many days and so many in attendance.

As far as opportunity for better skills, if they are low income they would recieve a a full pell grant and other grants. That covers 100% of community college tuition. Every single library has GED books and basic skill books. There are plenty of opportunities for them to learn a skill right now with the programs that are available..

They should also be recieving the EIC about now if they are employed and low income.

but I think the real reason is tied to funding.

Food stamps is still the gov taking care of you. I mentioned them because of you said due to extremem poverty it is the only place they can get a descent meal. That isn’t true, in extrememe poverty parents are entitled to food stamps.
If they are recieving a full food stamp allotment they can feed their family descently on it. You can feed a family descently on them. Look at the full allotments that is probably more than many people not on food stamps budget for the same size family each month.

If they can manage to enroll their child in a public school they have the skills to get to the library. People are not helpless. You are equating low income with being helpess or not ambitious. The problem is those traits, not the income level.

It’s less than $20 a week per person. You really can’t feed a family in a healthy way on that. No fresh vegetables. Lots of cheap rice-a-roni that is very high in salt and fat. You feel full, but you are not getting a good meal.

These people are poor because they bought into the Derm idea of the government will take care of them. So, they see no reason to change or don’t believe they can. They are not aware they CAN change. Maybe they can get to the library, but they don’t know why they should go. “There’s just a bunch of dumb books there.” They don’t know the resources are there because the government they worship never bothers to tell them. It is about the Dems creating a permanent lower class to keep winning elections. They don’t WANT people to know that you can study for your GED at the library. Because then people will do it and get educated and not depend on the government anymore. The entire Democratic agenda is premised on keeping dependent on the government. if people are self-reliant, caring for themselves and their kids, they don’t need big government running their lives anymore. If people don’t need big government anymore, the entire Democratic Party reason for existing disappears.

Nobody makes them buy commerically processed food with it. Rice a roni and prepackaged mixes like that are usually much higher per lb than basic foods like rice and adding your own spcies. At over $5/day each person can have wheat ( .25) 1/2 chicken $2.50), rice (.25), a lb of frozen vegetables $1.00 and fruit $1.00

Dry beans are a great deal for the cost of the protein. Beef knuckles or chicken bones make great soup bases for beans and they are inexpensive too.

I’m sleepy I hope my math is ok up there.

I haven’t escaped or avoided poverty. Thank you for the compliment, he is my pumpkin.

here is my book though

I don’t like the way poor or low income is substiuted as blame for bad character traits. (BTW that isn’t an attack on the OP!!!I) It’s usually irresponsibility that cause these extreme problems like hungry children, it is usually not a lack of government resources. The statements like the only meal is at school or we need to programs to so they can get job skills when we have food stamps and pell grants and accessible communiy colleges and public libraries do not make sense.
I always hear a lack of resources, programs, etc and it’s false. There is so much there. If people are apathetic and lazy all the free education and training available will not make a difference. If people refuse to be careful and properly utilitze the resources they are given (like food stamps), more resources are not going to solve that. It’s bad that policians use tha to expand government. If they said the children are not getting enough fruit, their diet mainly consist of rice beans and chicken and whole wheat bread, let’s expand the farmers market vouchers beyond WIC, I would know they were being honest. Saying we need expand this gov program so children can eat is a lie.

Now not everyone is going to continue their academic or vocational education, I’m not saying they are lazy. Some people are unable to attend school because they are very responsible and their duties conflict with school. (Examples would be someone taking care of a realtive’s child to keep the child out of the system, a single mother caring for an elderly parent, a single parent with health problems that can’t work and go to school) What I’m saying is laziness and apathy should be blamed when that is the case instead of “low income” or a lack or resources. I am only familiar with cities, not rural areas, so it might be true there, I don’t know.

Someone does not have to be literate to get on a bus and go to the library and let their kids max out their cards. Every library either has or can get a hold of a phonics program on tape like Hooked on Phonics. In the 3 cities I have lived in, the library bookmobile goes into the projects at least 2x per month. They don’t even charge past due fees. In the 3 cities The big main library is usually accessible by public transportation.

There are alot of situations that fall through the cracks. Teens that live with friends/relatives would be one. They don’t have the support of parents or the state. Homeless would be another one. There needs to be a way to give homeless prepared food (pop tarts, crackers, bars, grandola, slim jims, jerky). There is expited food stamps but they are never approved in 7 days. Things like not having a phone number delay them even more. I think churches could really fill in a need there with both of those situations. Those teens need transportation, checking accounts, money to order a birth certificate, information on being emancipated from a legal clinic and someone to co-sign for an apt when they are out on their own. They need money for personal items too in oder to be presentable to apply for a job. I wish someone would write up a bill saying states will waive birth certificate and ID fees if the applicant states the are homeless. Also something that lets banks to waive a chex system flag, and let homeless open up a savings account with no deposit, even if they have chex systems.