Affordable Housing

[Bogart]

For Burke, weeks of searching produced just one apartment in her price range. It was renting for $750 a month. With an income of less than $21,000 a year, she said, she didn't meet the minimum income requirement. She said other landlords denied her because of bad credit. She owes thousands in medical bills from a cervical cancer operation.</NITF>

<NITF>When Burke checked in at the White House Motel in 2003, she said she'd be there a month. She's a hard worker -- six nights a week, she mixes margaritas at a Mexican restaurant. And she's nobody's fool -- she graduated from Leonardtown High School in St. Mary's County. "I got a 4.0," she said of her grade-point average.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3413-2005Feb6.html?sub=AR</NITF>

 

[vraiblonde]

It would be well worth our tax dollars to hire these women to go around and talk to middle and high school students about what happens when you have children before you're financially able to care for them. Except the one that thinks living in a grubby motel "isn't so bad" - she can't talk to the school kids.

Not to mention that there is a perfectly good option for these folks that "can't find jobs" and "need a break". Trot your happy butt down to the local recruiting station and take your ASVAB. Get paid while you learn a trade, PLUS great benefits.

 

[pixiegirl]

Not to mention that there is a perfectly good option for these folks that "can't find jobs" and "need a break". Trot your happy butt down to the local recruiting station and take your ASVAB. Get paid while you learn a trade, PLUS great benefits.

In order to enlist with kids you have to be willing to sign your kids over to someone. I considered enlisting in the USCG until I learned about that little jem.

 

[Ken King]

In order to enlist with kids you have to be willing to sign your kids over to someone. I considered enlisting in the USCG until I learned about that little gem.

:fixed:

It's for the kid's benefit should the parent be deployed to have someone already designated to have custody.

 

[pixiegirl]

:fixed:

It's for the kid's benefit should the parent be deployed to have someone already designated to have custody.

I understand that and don't have a problem with it. I should have further explained. Because of that condition joining for me wasn't an option. I'd venture to say that because of the same condition it's probably not an option for most of these women either.

 

[vraiblonde]

I'd venture to say that because of the same condition it's probably not an option for most of these women either.

Maybe so, but that's not a deterrent to their menfolk.

The family is waiting for better days. Stinger's husband, Joseph, is due to get a raise at the Beretta factory in Accokeek. He makes $300 a week, more than half of which goes for rent.

Have I got a deal for him!

You don't "wait" for better days, you make better days.

 

[ProgMetalFanMan]

OR watch reruns of Happy Days

 

[pixiegirl]

Maybe so, but that's not a deterrent to their menfolk.


Have I got a deal for him!

You don't "wait" for better days, you make better days.

I absolutely agree. Before I left my ex husband I asked him to join the military. I thought it would be the one thing that could save him. He refused. Couple weeks later I left.