Comments on: Earning Their Keep

By: Edintally

Edintally — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:55:57 +0000

Nothing wrong with working to better yourself.

On another similar topic, my “I lean so far left, I fall over” professor mentioned xenophobia in reference to Indians (from India) being “persecuted” when they established motels/hotels in the U.S. I seem to recall there was some federal assistance with those purchases, either from direct government help or indirectly from possible guarantees to banks who lent money to Indians for starting motels. I’m thinking this happened in the 70s maybe into the 80s.

I’m also 99% sure Bosnian refugees received help in the 90s (over and above assistance to citizens).

I figured if any group knew about these things, it would be Balko’s readers. I’m finding whispers of programs, but nothing solid I can throw back at my prof. :)

Beers on me to whoever finds something.

By: perlhaqr

perlhaqr — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:21:15 +0000

That’s so beautiful I might cry.

If I’m going to have money stripped at gunpoint anyway, I sure wish I could choose to have it donated (no strings) to a program like this, instead of the crappy, union-ridden failure of a public school system the money goes to now.

By: Zeb

Zeb — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:08:57 +0000

#1, I don’t think that will really come up. The kids are getting paid a fair wage for the jobs they do. I don’t hear a lot of complaints about kids’ having after school jobs taking jobs from adults. As long as they are not Mexican.

By: Brock

Brock — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:49:08 +0000

Memphis Catholic High School does this as well.

By: SusanK

SusanK — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:39:04 +0000

But how long before someone complains about these kids taking jobs away from adults? Granted, none of the employers mentioned in the article sound like the type to “stoop” so low as to hire a poor person, but I certainly see that question being asked.