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Troll_Police_ posted...

Mead posted...

When two people working full time jobs can't support a household, it is time to raise wages.

when two unskilled laborers have 50 fucking kids when they couldnt affor the first one, its time to let them starve

not the kids of course. give them 3 square meals and a few uniforms at school, but the parents can fucking rot. we owe them nothing.

I'm down with you and not supporting the parents, but taking care of the kids. 100% agree.

That being said TEACHERS in some areas are unable to pay to rent a 1 bedroom apartment with their child (or children), and I'm not talking about tons of kids, just 1 or 2).

This one Art teacher, where I used to live had to rent a room because the starting teacher salary for the first 5 years in our district was $30,500 per year (no raises till after 5 years). Rent for a 1 bedroom in the area was $1500 minimum (it's near SJ California) and Insurance for her and her son was expensive (don't remember the exact amount but it was over $300).

Now, yes, that was only 1 parent, and in aperfect world there would be 2, but you would be amazed at how many single parents there are out there.

Now that has nothing to do with Min wage (although 30k a year if you factor in 40 hours a week isn't that much more then min wage...and no, you can't just do another job during the 2 months of summer vacation you have ongoing education etc, that takes up a good 2-3 weeks of that). Net after taxes, for a teacher in that area was about 2k, with $1500 just for rent, it's not feasible to live on that (especially with a child).
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