Then, imagine they successfully negotiate all these barriers and land themselves a new job, they face yet more problems, especially if they don’t have things like an ID or birth certificate. And so begins the vicious cycle where being without a job perpetuates their homelessness, and being without a home perpetuates their joblessness. This was the battle Shanesha was engaged in last week, when she was arrested and thrown in jail. Trying to find her children enough to eat, trying to keep them clean, hoping and praying that they didn’t get sick because she would have no way to treat them, and trying to keep them warm and safe through the cold nights in the car on the streets of Arizona. It brings to mind the scene from the Will Smith film ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’, where he and his son have only a public toilet to sleep in at night and he is cuddling his son and crying while someone bangs on the door outside. iacknowledge.net/homeless-mother-gets-job-interview-ends-up-in-jail-for-having-no-childcare/
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