Fran works six days a week in fast food, and yet she's homeless: 'It's economic slavery'

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81. We need gov't and society to improve child care and health care

People should be able to raise kids without going bankrupt. Plus the US needs more kids.

"I don't know how she can work that many hours in a day! That's crazy and then, she's not really raising her children, someone else is. It's just illogical. ugh. Sometimes I hate to read these stories because then it becomes 'normal' and this is not normal!"

And this is the "success" story of someone who can hold down two jobs. Meanwhile a normal person who wants to work 40 hours a week is just broken by the system. The woman described in this article who can work 60+ hours a week should be able to live reasonably well, and the 40-hour worker should be able to live modestly. Now 60+ hours gets you barely modest living and 40 hours gets you poverty. That's wrong.