Atlanta is trying to undo decades of failed social experiments and poverty programs. In a Los Angeles Times article on housing for Atlanta’s poor came this:

Conswayla Gardner, 35, [pictured above left] who supports seven children with a $7-an-hour cleaning job and struggles to buy items such as washing powder and toothpaste, said she simply could not afford higher rent or utility bills. She lives at Bowen Homes, a 1960s-era public-housing complex with two-story brick buildings that is among those scheduled to be torn down.

“I live from paycheck to paycheck, and I’m barely getting by,” she said. “Am I going to end up homeless?”

I will give her credit for at least working. But somewhere around kid #3 or 4 didn’t it strike her that raising kids is expensive and maybe she should hold off for awhile? There was no mention of a husband or significant other so it’s possible if not likely she is a single mom. At some point there needs to be a modicum of personal responsibility.

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