[combat_boots]

“how to dissuade poor girls without a high school education from having children by a man who won’t marry and support them. It also requires doing a much better job helping make ex-convicts—the 700,000 or so mostly men who leave prison each year—more employable.

And it requires finding more successful ways of helping alcoholics and drug addicts—who make up a sizeable portion of those who say they can’t work because they are ill—get straight and stay clean.”

It’s not complexity requiring a solution here. As Reagan said, it’s a simple answer that requires a ‘hard moral choice.’

[kalee]

It also requires doing a much better job helping make ex-convicts—the 700,000 or so mostly men who leave prison each year—more employable. My mother, a retired business woman, was an instructor at a minimun security facility in FL. She taught the young men in her class how to fill out job applications, how to dress and respond to questions when interviewed and other skills that they would need to seek and keep a job. She was always saddened by the stories they had to tell of how they had gotten in prison, but even more so when one of them screwed up and lost his place in her class. She wanted to reach them and help them turn over a new leaf and succeed, but the chances of them doing so were not very good.