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>>tysone+(OP)
The lady in the example is 33 has a diabetes, 3 kids to support, and presumably also have to support for her disabled mother. To make the matter even more sad she had no higher level education. I can imagine how hard and tough it is for her. But I don't think raising the minimum wage or a mandated salary increase/promotion is the real solution here. The real solutions would be to: 1. Educate parents on the importance of children education. 2. Educate people to not have kids before they're financially and emotionally ready. 3. The importance and responsibilities that come with having kids.

Having been born in a developing countries and went to US for university and work sometime there, I can say that US minimum salary and the other related perks are already significantly way better of most of emerging countries.

>>blacks+oW
How exactly do you intend to fund the design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of such a massive social engineering program?

Your anecdote doesn’t really mean much. “Significantly way better” is apparently still not enough.

Similar to why food stamps are cheaper than food education. The administrative burden is prohibitively expensive.

Let’s not consider the thesis at hand here; jobs aren’t the answer. That flies in the face of our corporate sponsored religion.

Of course believing that inherently threatens your status.

This site should best stick to discussion of technology. Whenever social topics come along, the community quickly reveals its ignorance of reality for the majority, and knee jerk defense of its status quo

>>iei02n+Qc1
>How exactly do you intend to fund the design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of such a massive social engineering program?

Maybe take some money out of military spending? Educate the population, the economy soars, and then you can re-increase the military budget 30 years down the line.