But there is an underclass that needs to be reached.
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Definitely, but it is not only the black underclass. The class that has been mired in welfare, single parenthood, poor school systems, no desire to want to learn or get ahead, being advanced for what you ARE, not what you are capable of doing. This includes all races and ‘groups’.
“THEY” have virtually made it impossible for a teenager to learn work values as the hiring modes put on a teenager working are very restrictive. Even the age old ‘money makers’ such as shoveling snow, mowing lawns and baby sitting are going by the wayside due to ‘regulations etc’.
I (kind of) realize the goal was to stop child abuse in the work place, but the days of a kid getting/or earning a couple of bucks from the corner grocer for sorting his apples or leaning on a broom are gone due to “labor laws”.
I personally was setting pins in a bowling alley while in high school (nights & weekends) (pegs, not auto or even semi auto) which was just one of the many opportunities I had to supplement my mothers income... Because I played sports, I preferred not to get tied up with lawns and snow shoveling, even though I did my fair share of it.
Kids today can’t do that, or at least not without the offerer being subject to heavy punishment etc ...
Agree. I was responding to a comment that focused on Black young men rather than underclass in general.
****Even the age old ‘money makers’ such as shoveling snow, mowing lawns and baby sitting are going by the wayside due to ‘regulations etc’*****
These jobs are now being done by illegal aliens.