Not only does the TANF play a sole welfare role, but government leaders and educators are working to give free tuition to people who sign up for the "career ladder" programs at college, as opposed to forwarding it all to job training. ... Although impoverishment can be partially blamed on the individual under certain circumstances, the government can ill afford to look past factors such as the high rate of unemployment, low-wage jobs, a rapid rate of layoffs, and (in their own light) the amount of funds they make available. ...

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School is a viable solution, but how is a minimum wage worker supposed to pay the sky-high tuitions of higher education? ... Ehrenreich says that the poor, " neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that the other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices will be high To be a member of the working poor is to be a nameless benefactor to everyone else (p.221, Fine and Weis)." ...

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