The single mothers who live in ghettos must be grateful that welfare pays their rent and food. Many are also grateful to have a warm man in their beds. I knew three of these bed warmers. They were all ex-cons and drug dealers. One of them was my daughter’s boyfriend. He beat her up a few times and got arrested. The court sent him to anger management school. He’s still selling drugs. My daughter wants him back. Go figure.
Like most drug dealing boyfriends of single mothers, he is unemployable due to his criminal history. Programs designed to aid these felons help only a few. The majority who sign up for these HELP programs do so only to avoid prison.
We knew ao little about the culture of poverty until Katrina. The repot that Fresno is home to high poverty came as a surprise to local officials. I wonder why.
