When I taught job-seeking classes to welfare and food stamp recipients (97% female) back in the late 80’s and throughout the 90’s, they drove better cars, wore better clothing, had more “things” than I did and I was a government employee. They were “early adaptors” of cell phones when they penetrated beyond doctors, lawyers and business executives, many years before I ever got one. Their purses and shoes were much more expensive than I could afford for my wife. We (the govt. and taxpayers) had sent many of them back to school to get their associates and bachelor degrees, yet they “couldn’t find a job” even in a 3% unemployment economy!
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When I taught job-seeking classes to welfare and food stamp recipients (97% female) back in the late 80’s and throughout the 90’s. We (the govt. and taxpayers) had sent many of them back to school to get their associates and bachelor degrees, yet they “couldn’t find a job
I would imagine they didn’t want a job because then the freebies stop. Plus I would imagine after 99 weeks of vacation they roll right into the SSI program. What a life.