NO work to be found at all.
You shouldn't be having children if you can't get a job that pays enough to support them.
There are jobs out there but you won't get them if you're covered with tats and piercings, you have few skills, your pants are hanging down and you don't speak understandable English.
Yes, there are and should be bad consequences for bad decisions.
From what I saw on my last trip to MO, much of the rural area resembled the third world. Drugs and welfare have devastated the state. The largest employer seemed to be the police, with the court house and county jail being the largest facilities. I had to drive 80 miles to find a decent hotel. It was right off the Interstate, but when I ran to grab some dinner, I soon became very cognizant that I didn’t have my pistol with me.
This depth of ignorance, poverty, and dependence is not something that will disappear by executive fiat. Much of the country is ravaged as if by cancer. Studies indicate it takes at least 2 years to overcome every year of trauma. If that’s the case, we have a century’s worth of hard work—all the while opposed by almost half the country and virtually every institution.
Thank you! ‘Can’t raise a family’ on $10 an hour? How about teenagers seeing entry level jobs NOT making babies the jobs they can do will support? Don’t make what you can’t feed. It’s not business’ responsibility to pay you according to the number of kids you have. If that were the case salaries should double with each birth? Minimum wage for no kids- $10 an hour, for 5 kids $60 an hour? It’s all bass-ackwards!