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I was born into one of those nowhere low wage "right to work" shitholes and I have some advice for people in them.
Leave. GTFO. Get a passport or move to a state with a high minimum wage. Your family doesn't matter. Your education options don't matter. You will be better off somewhere else, I guarantee it.
You'd be right back in the same boat. You might make more, but now you live where the cost of living is way higher, too.
California has the second highest minimum wage in the cou try at $16.90/hour, and it's still not enough to live off of in California.
your quality of life will be much higher. in high wage states you get way more for your dollar in terms of opportunities and services.
in CA op wouldn't need a car, would have way more opportunity/choice for jobs, and probably could take classes at a community college to improve their life.
Maybe if they choose to live in LA or the bay area. You definitely need one in the central valley, foothills or Sierras.
You would not be back in the same boat. Your life will improve. Make the move.
I am 100% doing this. My family doesn't matter. Fuck my family. My wife is a piece of shit and the kids are too. A random stranger online said it and that's fucking gospel to me. Good luck to the kids. I'm outta here. Thanks buddy. You are SO right.
I was implying the family as in the larger social network of parents, grandparents, cousins, etc. The leading cause of homelessness is not having exactly that sort of network, I think about a third are foster care children who aged out of the system.
If you have a wife and kids then you've already made your bed. Best you can do is take them with you to Colorado or Washington.