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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
This is a talking point. But what would you specifically do?
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Set limits on the term that one can receive the funding and allow extensions if one is making a legit effort of actually trying to get on their feet.
The problem I've seen here in Alabama is that people come in to fill out an application for their food stamps or unemployment requirements. They come in and are done in 5 mins and want copies to take into the DHS office to prove they've been 'looking' for a job.
The hard part is trying to define who is actually making an attempt at getting a job really compared to those trying to just abuse the system, that I don't have any ideas or an answer to.
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I will say that Education upgrades would help in a massive way with that problem. We need to make a better effort of getting the inner cities better schools and make college a real possibility and make it really affordable. The university system here is stupid, the tuition rates went up at UA last year 7% and will go up again this year. The schools know that everyone will be able to get the loans and federal grants to pay for it and will continue to raise it until it gets maxed out. The university honestly doesn't care that their students will be paying on their loans well into their 40's or that their parents had to take out a second mortgage to get them into that school. A lot of schools are now making it extremely hard for instate students to get accepted, they'd rather take an out of state student that pays three times as much in one semester than an instate pays in a year.