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April 16th, 2008 at 08:55am Jan Herbert
This morning I read in a Register Star story … “Estimates suggest that 38.4 percent of 25-year-olds in the United States will experience poverty at some point in their adult lives.” It is so unbelievable, I hope the information is wrong. Even if it it had said 19 or 20 percent, it’s still unbelievable and I still hope it’s wrong.
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3 Comments Add your own
1. Linda Grist Cunningham | April 16th, 2008 at 10:15 am
I almost cried when I read those numbers and Geri’s story, and came away feeling so helpless. The divide between the haves and have nots is filled with people struggling just to survive.
2. Jan Herbert | April 16th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I see it as an abyss that most of us have no idea what it must be like to look down into. And maybe for some there’s a prayer they won’t ever have to. It is an overwhelming feeling of helplessness, if we can’t begin to make the changes to fix this alarming trend, what’s the use of everything else
3. Donna Harris | April 22nd, 2008 at 1:06 am
Speaking of unbelievable!
There is a Navy SARS living in Guam that has had to apply for food stamps and has had to sell his vehicle just to get food and live. He and his commrades risk their lives daily rescuing and saving our soldiers and civilians in Iraq and around the world because his exwife keeps going to court to get more and more child support for his daughter (which he does not begrudge giving at all!). The exwife is bitter, greedy and never satisfied because she keeps taking him to court. She has his tax returns sent to her too. The little girl is about four and the Navy service man can not even talk to the little girl on the phone because the mother is only concerned about avenging her pride. I do not understand why the lawyers and judges in Rockford do not give this American Soldier a fair trial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He would give up a lot just to be able to talk on the phone to his daughter once or twice a month, but the woman has total control and will not let the little girl talk to her daddy. Seems paying nearly all of his income for child support would get him a guarenteed phone call once or twice a month.
It is a travisty that the American Soldiers who so freely give (men and women) can not be protected from money hungry, greedy, vengful exspouses that use children to get their revenge.
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