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[AJE]

Basic necessities to life: Food, water, cloths, shelter and a job :roll:

Yeah right, I am one of Wisconsin’s working poor. Although I've held a secure dead end job for 4 years, my monthly net take home pay is in the negative digits on a regular basis after forking monies for rent, utilities, student loan, car payments, gas, ALL insurance costs etc etc. I do my shopping at second hand stores because I can't afford anything else. The only luxuries I’m enabled are when someone else will pay or going Dutch. I hate this life I graduated from college with a degree and yet can’t find a job, which’ll give me a decent wage to have the life I dream.

I moved out of Manitowoc County in 2003 because the economy just keeps getting worse. NO jobs back there plus a very high unemployment rate, I searched for 10 months for work…none to be found. So when I was hired in Winnebago County I moved, yet I’m still in a rut years later.

It’s a no win situation for my sister and I, especially when we are being told we don’t qualify for low income housing because we make 6 cents too much! How about since neither of us have a child we don’t qualify for Medicaid Insurance, foodstamps or welfare aid, even though we both inherited poor health and have very costly medical bills. We have to constantly choose between the high co-pays and buying food.

I hope life will change for the better soon, as this was not my childhood vision to grow up and be poor. Normally I wouldn't address such intimate issues but hello I'm not the only one dealing with this and lord knows just how many in Wisconsin are in a far worse situation. :cry: