"Im not sure about the minimum wage.. but I believe trade schools and nursing school type schools should be free and pay the people enough they can eat and rent and get to the school." "The government would very quickly get back the costs of those skills by taxes on those people in the future. In my city Ive seen people get stuck in poverty. Especially single mothers. They have to stay at the dead end job to meet the next few months payments." Holy cow, do you have a link? When conservatives took over the government, all sorts of liberals came over to our side simply to be on the winning team. Unfortunetly, they came to FR, too.