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<blockquote data-quote="trplnkl" data-source="post: 908396" data-attributes="member: 13254"><p>I agree there was clearly a poor choice of words, but find it hard to argue with his basic premiss. We have to recognize that in the very poorest of neighborhoods there is not a lot of people working, that&#039;s why they are in the poorest neighborhoods which can and often does include all races. There are indeed poor white families as well as minorities that have generations that have not had jobs they go to on a regular bases. How does a young person learn to work, be responsible to themselves and an employer without a starting point? When I was in jr. and sr. high school there was a program where kids from lower income families could work for the schools and be payed a wage. No, they couldn&#039;t live on that wage, but they could help with at least part of the family or personal expenses. Along with that, they learned when you have a job you have responsibilities and what it means to uphold them, something they had no other venue for that experience.&nbsp; The child labor laws prevent this from happening. I do understand that NO child labor laws open up a Pandora&#039;s box of possible abuse.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="trplnkl, post: 908396, member: 13254"] I agree there was clearly a poor choice of words, but find it hard to argue with his basic premiss. We have to recognize that in the very poorest of neighborhoods there is not a lot of people working, that's why they are in the poorest neighborhoods which can and often does include all races. There are indeed poor white families as well as minorities that have generations that have not had jobs they go to on a regular bases. How does a young person learn to work, be responsible to themselves and an employer without a starting point? When I was in jr. and sr. high school there was a program where kids from lower income families could work for the schools and be payed a wage. No, they couldn't live on that wage, but they could help with at least part of the family or personal expenses. Along with that, they learned when you have a job you have responsibilities and what it means to uphold them, something they had no other venue for that experience. The child labor laws prevent this from happening. I do understand that NO child labor laws open up a Pandora's box of possible abuse. [/QUOTE]

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