Welfare... RedRiot

I'm taking Political Science in school and we're learning about poverty right now. We watched a video in class that was all about welfare and the new laws. In some cases it was really sad and in other cases I was infuriated. A lady who had been on welfare for twenty years had, under the new laws, reached her max amount of help. She blamed the government for her misfortunes. She got a few jobs, but kept losing them because she kept calling in sick. "I don't like packing meat," or "I didn't like the buffet so I kept calling in sick. They cut my hours to ten hours a week after I didn't show up one day. And I quit because I can't live off of ten hours a week." So then she became homeless with her husband and seventeen year old daughter. Another girl was seventeen and she and her mother were on welfare. The girl had a baby and could not get help because she could not name the father. So then, she and her fourteen year old boyfriend PLANNED, I repeat, PLANNED to have a baby!!!! They did and oops, guess what! They had no money to take care of the baby. Well because of new child exclusion laws, the state could not help with this baby either. The girl talked about how hard it was to go to school and work 15 hours a week at Target. Now maybe I am being too harsh, but things like this make me so mad I just want to scream. If anyone else has another point of view, please feel free to share.

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