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Connecticut allows NO post-secondary education as part of it’s TANF program. The results, a children poverty rate of 41.3% in Hartford (the state’s capitol) the the honor of being the second poorest city in the county. Food Banks report a 19% increase in demand and are limiting the amount of food they pass out. Our unemployment rate is 5%, up from 4.4% ayear ago. One last note, we have had a Republican governor since 1994. You do the math.
Posted by Deb Noble on Oct 6, 2003 at 9:53 AM
This is an excellent article, but I would rush to take issue with the claim made that “there
Posted by Benjamin Day on Oct 6, 2003 at 1:49 PM
As a single mother who completed her college degree on welfare, thanks to In These Times for covering this important issue. Because of my degree, I was able to get a job that pays me enough to support my family, and now pay $20,000 a year in taxes - more than I used to make working full-time in a low-wage, dead-end job.
As an “education activist” and Executive Director of LIFETIME (Low-Income Families’ Empowerment through Education), this issue is particularly important to me. LIFETIME is a grassroots membership organization of parents who are pursuing education as the means out of poverty. Each year, LIFETIME receives calls for help from hundreds of TANF student parents throughout California, because their county welfare department is trying to make them quit school. Existing research clearly shows that postsecondary education is the surest route out of poverty for a single mother in poverty, and the parents in our organization are daily proof of this. Mothers in our organization
Posted by Diana Spatz on Oct 6, 2003 at 6:06 PM
I didn’t go to college and I’ve got a good job. I think college is a waste of time. I started working and working hard when I was 16.
All these kids now don’t want to work hard. I see it every day. Can’t do this, won’t do that… cry cry cry. We’ve got good jobs if you start low, stick with it, learn what you’re doing, and DO THE WORK.
Best guy in our shop is this Brazilian kid who barely speaks English (but he’s learning). He came over, didn’t complain about nothing or ask for anything except a job. Now he’s got a kid and a house and is on cloud 9.
He didn’t get any welfare or nothing. Now he’s paying taxes for the welfare.
Posted by Nat G. on Oct 9, 2003 at 9:33 AM
Nat, college is not a waste of time. The people who provide the biggest services to society all had to go to college, the doctors, the engineers and the lawyers all needed to college. There are many businessmen in this country who did not go to college, I know a millionare in business who didn’t go, but to say college is not valuable is a mistake.
However, you make a good point about how you can get anywhere in this country wiith persistence and hard work.
Posted by brad on Oct 10, 2003 at 8:05 AM
Brad-
Good points. Didn’t mean to be grumpy.
Posted by Nat G. on Oct 10, 2003 at 3:23 PM
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Connecticut allows NO post-secondary education as part of it’s TANF program. The results, a children poverty rate of 41.3% in Hartford (the state’s capitol) the the honor of being the second poorest city in the county. Food Banks report a 19% increase in demand and are limiting the amount of food they pass out. Our unemployment rate is 5%, up from 4.4% ayear ago. One last note, we have had a Republican governor since 1994. You do the math.
This is an excellent article, but I would rush to take issue with the claim made that “there
As a single mother who completed her college degree on welfare, thanks to In These Times for covering this important issue. Because of my degree, I was able to get a job that pays me enough to support my family, and now pay $20,000 a year in taxes - more than I used to make working full-time in a low-wage, dead-end job.
As an “education activist” and Executive Director of LIFETIME (Low-Income Families’ Empowerment through Education), this issue is particularly important to me. LIFETIME is a grassroots membership organization of parents who are pursuing education as the means out of poverty. Each year, LIFETIME receives calls for help from hundreds of TANF student parents throughout California, because their county welfare department is trying to make them quit school. Existing research clearly shows that postsecondary education is the surest route out of poverty for a single mother in poverty, and the parents in our organization are daily proof of this. Mothers in our organization
I didn’t go to college and I’ve got a good job. I think college is a waste of time. I started working and working hard when I was 16.
All these kids now don’t want to work hard. I see it every day. Can’t do this, won’t do that… cry cry cry. We’ve got good jobs if you start low, stick with it, learn what you’re doing, and DO THE WORK.
Best guy in our shop is this Brazilian kid who barely speaks English (but he’s learning). He came over, didn’t complain about nothing or ask for anything except a job. Now he’s got a kid and a house and is on cloud 9.
He didn’t get any welfare or nothing. Now he’s paying taxes for the welfare.
Nat, college is not a waste of time. The people who provide the biggest services to society all had to go to college, the doctors, the engineers and the lawyers all needed to college. There are many businessmen in this country who did not go to college, I know a millionare in business who didn’t go, but to say college is not valuable is a mistake.
However, you make a good point about how you can get anywhere in this country wiith persistence and hard work.
Brad-
Good points. Didn’t mean to be grumpy.
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