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Orlando Enrique Fiol

wrote:
>That is one problem. The Federal minimum wage is ridiculously low and some
>states are not much better. There should be a time limit though, and
>possibly some training - job skills help. The other problem is that you
>have to WANT to do well, educate yourself, be trained and try to earn a
>living.
>OH, dignity and self esteem play here too. Or the lack of it.

Your ongoing assumption is that people on welfare consider their lives
care free and ideal. Most people on welfare turn to it as a last ditch
supplemental economic option, one of many including traditional jobs and
participation in informal or illegal economies. It has little to do with
self esteem and more to do with life costing more than low wage salaries
can purchase.

Orlando