Their kids, your cash
Re “Pay raises, higher minimum come at a cost for some,” Jan. 8
Two families are covered in the article about the unintended consequences of raising the minimum wage.
May Martinez and her husband have two beautiful daughters, one 2 and the other 4 years old. Perhaps they could have learned with the experience of their first daughter about the unwieldy expense of providing child care and having children in general while earning minimum wage. Apparently not, but she calls it an “injustice” when she loses her child-care subsidy.
Alicia Combs had her first child while homeless in 2010; she eventually had another son. She is a single mother.
Please, please, please, folks, let’s at some point begin to have the societal courage to encourage people to make morally and financially responsible decisions about the health, education and welfare of their children. As the saying goes, let’s do it for the children. Jim Tetreau South Pasadena
Martinez’s fellow taxpayers are no longer providing her with more than $2,200 per month for child care after her husband got a promotion. They must put these children ahead of her education, as no parents should ever have to do.
For her to claim this predicament an “injustice” speaks volumes. Pursuing an education at night and online? Why, I’ve never heard of such a horrid thing.
These are sad days indeed when individuals view government childcare subsidies (paid by fellow taxpayers) as their rightful allowance and are indignant when they do not receive them. The true injustice is the slippery slope toward a socialist state. Shaun Bowen Tustin