11-23-2020, 03:44 PM
(11-23-2020, 12:03 PM)WhodeyRay Wrote: Rep to you Reuben!!! I am the Director of Child Nutrition at a school system in a well off community in the Toledo area. So many families that were making a really good living before the pandemic are now either on furlow or lost their jobs. They are being forced to decide between food or a roof over their heads. The jobs are not out there for them to apply to to change jobs unless they want to go from 80,000 to 15 an hr. The middle class salary jobs and small business owners are the ones that are really taking it in the shorts with this and unfortuantly so are their kids.
Unfortunately that money doesn't go far enough, although it goes farther than one might think at first glance. Also I see the money doesn't seem to get shared from city to city. I got blasted by someone like sled21 in my neighborhood saying I should have donated to our city's food bank instead, and I said why, this is a majority of people who suffer from affluency in our city vs. Cleveland who actually needs it a lot more, but I get it many are in trouble right now regardless of their affluency, Cleveland has been poor for a long time.
It's exactly what Joe is doing, giving to Athens and not the wealthy city he might live in.
And people think there isn't a disparity in society when a lot of others major worry for the day is if they can eat enough food and if they can survive the walk to school and back.
There is some binary thought on people in poverty and thinking it's a choice, and that hard work can get them out of it. Short sighted small minded thoughts IMO.
BTW I lived in Toledo and my Dad taught there for almost 40 years.
