I Am Fuming..

Ok, so as many people know I have been laid off from my job. This morning I was on the Capitol Workforce Partners website. On this site I notice that they have a Summer Youth and Learning Program. Peeked my interest, Zac really wants a job and this looks like something that he could do over the summer, get some training..right.

They have requirements

• must be 14..check
• must have a birth certificate...check
• must have social security card...check
• must have citizenship...ie..birth certificate....check
• any special circumstances...nope
• do you receive free lunch at school...nope
• are you on welfare...nope

What was I told?...If you do not receive welfare, food stamps or free lunch then you might not want to show up to apply.

What kind of crap is that?? Because I don't suck the State of Connecticut dry my child does not have the opportunity to learn or get a summer job. That is crappy as far as I am concerned. Why does a child that lives in a home with one working parent and a parent on unemployment not get the same services as a child who's parent is milking the system for money or sitting on their asses selling drugs and shooting each other. Making a menace out of themselves, bringing down communities and cities. I have a child who wants to work and who wants to become something, yet my less than middle class income prohibits that!! How is that fair? Honestly, it makes me nauseous..I wonder what the statistics are, how many kids who were eligible for this service, thanks to their parents, have actually taken the skills they have learned and become something as adults.