Roomin' House Blues

Another group that is in the margins in our society is low income women with children in college.  It's difficult enough for working women to obtain child care.  For women holding down a part time job, with a couple of kids going to community college, it can be a leading cause of either dropping out of college or aborting another child.  If you are both pro-life and pro-justice like me these things are of concern.  Feminists for Life called my attention to an article on this:  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110323006571/en/Colleges-Child-Care-Student-Parents-Graduate

I live in an America outside the box of success. I am not uncontaminated by the contents of the box.  It spills over on us who are poor.  For 13 years I have worked as a parking attendant, outside the accepted definition of success in America. I harbored my faith in good, my love of books and arts, my dreams for the future, my past as a community organizer in my heart. My dreams, my past, my faith, the things I loved conflicted--stormy conflict sometimes.  And yet I remained of good cheer and equanimity.  My standard of living began to erode as the costs of my needs grew and when my hours were cut.  And then I lost my job. For over a month I have been unemployed.  I am in greater fear now than before.  I am in a country that has forgotten her poor, her unemployed, those losing their houses, but has not forgotten those too big to fail. When I first lost my job, after 13 years, I entered a dark hole.  In the da...