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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (53917)	8/6/2002 9:05:01 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

See my post to X. Take a junior in high school, one of three children of a single mother, who is passing in school but with difficulty, and is working nights at the gas station to help support the family and save a few dollars for community college or trade school so he can learn a decent trade. Suddenly now his take-home pay is basically cut in half. He can no longer save anything for school, and when he leaves high school he will be required by the state to get full time employment rather than go to college or trade school. (The day he turns 18, most states, including mine, require that he work full time to support his child.) No college or trade school. No opportunity for self-improvement. Sure, if he was a Horatio Alger, maybe he could work two jobs (though the state will take more as he makes more) to save up and go to school, but if he were that kind of a kid he probably wouldn't have gotten a girl pregnant in the first place. We need to deal with the reality of the people this actually happens to.

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