Thank you for your response. Yes, I’ve done these things. The unfortunate reality is that my state is not very charitable. The decision makers here fund the Department of Child Safety with federal money intended for social safety net programs.
The TANF benefit, for instance, is like $200 per month per family but requires recipients to spend a certain amount of hours every week in an office doing stupid busy work as punishment for not being employed, thus reducing the time/energy they could otherwise be using to find some income generating activity to do for more than $200 per month.
Consequently, no one bothers signing up to get TANF, and the state shrugs and says “no one is signing up for this program, therefore we will spend the money on more important things like separating poor families by force for being plagued with problems we have criminalized.”
There are nonprofits and stuff, but they are constantly swamped here since they are effectively all there is. The need in AZ is enormous and festering. Any attempt to address it socially, however, tends to be met with overwhelming contempt.
Thank you for your response. Yes, I’ve done these things. The unfortunate reality is that my state is not very charitable. The decision makers here fund the Department of Child Safety with federal money intended for social safety net programs.
The TANF benefit, for instance, is like $200 per month per family but requires recipients to spend a certain amount of hours every week in an office doing stupid busy work as punishment for not being employed, thus reducing the time/energy they could otherwise be using to find some income generating activity to do for more than $200 per month.
Consequently, no one bothers signing up to get TANF, and the state shrugs and says “no one is signing up for this program, therefore we will spend the money on more important things like separating poor families by force for being plagued with problems we have criminalized.”
There are nonprofits and stuff, but they are constantly swamped here since they are effectively all there is. The need in AZ is enormous and festering. Any attempt to address it socially, however, tends to be met with overwhelming contempt.