From welfare to work?

Obviously, a living wage job, but we all know the system of "workfare" doesn't operate fairly. It's basically modern day slavery. A welfare mom will take any job that's available to her, because the welfare class doesn't have resources and it's usually a low wage, service job. Meanwhile, after she gets this low wage job, the welfare that she was getting while she wasn't working is cut off. That would include any cash allotment, childcare assistance, bus pass and sometimes food stamps. A low wage job that pays 10.00 an hour will not support a single man...how does the government expect it to support a mother and her children? Not to mention if the father doesn't pay child support either...if he does it's still not enough because he's probably poor as well. This is why we have so many hungry and abused children in America. The children in a lot of third world countries seem happier than our own. Maybe, it's due to them not being reared in a self centered, greedy, capitalist society...... they are already poor but don't even see their parents all day.

Jobs that make them better off than they were on welfare. If I do the math and find that the job means I'm away from home so much I rarely see my kids, that the cost associated with the job (transportation, clothing, childcare, greater use of prepared and convenience foods, etc) is such that the compensation doesn't make up for the time away from my kids, then I'm not really better off.

Take home pay = $1,200 / mo

Transit pass = $120 mo

Childcare = $440 mo

Special foods = extra $200 mo for groceries and food

Money left over for rent, for utilities, for EVERYTHING other than food, childcare, and transportation = $440

Hours away from home:

160 hr / mo on the job

50 hr / mo riding bus, waiting at bus stop, walking to and from bus stop

210 hr / mo away from home

Spending 210 hours a month away from home to come out $440 "ahead" is a deal anybody with two brain cells would walk away from. Nobody is going to care about keeping a job that essentially pays about $2 an hour. If you want people to care about keeping the job, then keeping the job must be worth caring about. 

Fast food, janitor, Walmart greeter

They should get a job they can do, hopefully one that can help them improve their skills and learn new ones to keep them in the workforce paying taxes and moving up economically. But these jobs have to be available.

Their skill level will determine that.