My Week on Welfare

3 days ago

"New contributor Lucy MacDonald knows all about homelessness and living in shelters. Community Services is actually fostering homelessness rather than solving it with is impractical rules and inadequate shelter allowances, she says." ...

My Week on Welfare

3 days ago

"The Department of Community Services values the work of a single parent on welfare looking after their own child at approximately $2.45 an hour ($825 per month). With more than one child you are bumped up to $2.60...this ‘wage’ is expected to pay for the children’s clothing, food, diapers, shoes, transportation, and entertainment activities as well as your own cost of living."
nsadvocate.org/2017/07/21/caring-for-a-child-is-work/ ...

My Week on Welfare

1 week ago

"Middle and upper class people who have the money take celebrating their birthdays for granted. They gather with a bunch of their friends or family members at an expensive/ restaurant, they go to a movie with a friend, or maybe have people over to their homes to celebrate and in the summer time a BBQ, those are things that people living in poverty can only dream of." ...