working doesnt always work blog 5

The videos all have the same theme; the poor are staying poor because of the vicious cycle of poverty. It is almost impossible to save when you are making minimum wage and working paycheck to paycheck. The collective stories we heard in the videos are gauging poverty and its extremes the food stamps, the minimum weekly pay, a family of four living on less then 21, 0000 dollars a year. Not only does the salary hurt these families but their children will grow up in poverty they will not get the same nutrition, the same education, they’ll grow up in unsafe neighborhoods with stressed out parents who probably will not be around enough because they are constantly working. What is an awful fact is that many of these parents have no education so yes, they may work several hours a week taking them away from their children but they aren’t in good paying jobs because they aren’t educated. Why aren’t they educated? Because public schools where they grew up offer them nothing in the sense of education, we are keeping the working poor, poor because we refuse to set up more education opportunities for their children and the neighborhoods they live in. Why do we tax low income families more when we provide them less in the long run, I think it’s great that Clinton urged and required parents to work to get assistance but it has gone too far. If you require them to work, they require you to provide education and child care. If you provided education chances are the need for public child care would go down, the economy would go up and less people would need to be on welfare. Most people in the videos talk about themselves as the working poor or do not classify them as the working poor but all the people in those videos had something to say about low income and work how the government could improve the quality of life for low income families and workers. Every single person who offered a solution said the word ‘government’ and even some said ‘tax wealthier people’. I idea that we take more from poor workers because they use the assistance which is not that good more than wealthy people do, it is a backwards way of thinking honestly and what is the point of taking more money from the low income workers just to give it back to them in the form of food stamps?