[NefCanuck]

NOS2Go4Me,Feb 1 2007, 09:29 AM Wrote:If you're honestly trying to raise a family on $8.00/hr, you're either horribly misguided (and well-intentioned) or you're the dumbest SOB I've ever heard of.

Most folks can be helped to understand that they can get beyond a minimum wage job. Hell, welfare will subsidize your monthly wages to ensure that you and your family DON'T starve.

Grants and busaries are available to get folks through school with low overhead costs and distance / night courses are generally available for most colleges and universities these days.

It's one thing to be stuck in a minimum-wage job and to be actively looking for better options. It's another to sit there in that job while living in geared-to-income housing and bitching. I've seen it done many times. Those people get s*** all from me in terms of symapthy.
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Gotta call you on this one...

Here's a real life reason why you can get stuck doing minimum wage jobs, staying one paycheque away from disaster.

Imagine you're a single parent, how the hell can you afford to take any time away from earning at your minimum wage job to upgrade your skills to get a better job? Or better yet you might suggest, work two minimum wage jobs?

Try finding a daycare spot, most daycares that people can afford have waiting lists long enough for the kid to get their driver license before a spot ever opens up :rolleyes:

Hell, even a single person working solo, try working a 40 hour week (which is likely te rule & not the exception in min wage work that's f/t) and then try to do any sort of courses.

and don't even get me started on the cost of renting a place, in Mississauga getting a place that isn't a roach motel means spending at minimum $800/m which a huge chunk out of the net take home pay. Rent Geared to Income housing? Pfft, in Peel you have a higher chance of winning the lottery than getting a place.

NefCanuck