Some people now trying to make do on what she experimented with will *lose their jobs*. Others will never have the chance. Higher minimum wage, no job. Why doesn't that fact count against rasing the wage? Or against the alleged motives of people who would raise the minimum wage? Why not a news story on trying to get by with *no* job, as many people would have to do if the wage were raised?
Then, as many others have pointed out, she's eligible for many other programs (in NYC, to be sure). She also could babysit for the $10 an hour she says she has to pay *her* babysitter.
And finally, minimum wage or minimum wage, it's hard to have only low-paying skills and an out-of-wedlock child. Don't do that.
Would we have as much sympathy for someone who gambled away all of her assets, and then had to make a go with nothing? Why, then, should we view childbirth differently? Many people avoid children until they're more settled in life for exactly these reasons.
Partly because of the involvement of an innocent child and partly because we would like to find a way to break the cycle. Hint: we're on the wrong track. All the gerry-rigging of wages, housing costs, prices, or whatever, in the world will not compensate for moral bankruptcy. For the most part, conservatives are opposed to abortion, as we should be, so we are really in kind of a quandry. We either find a way to support these children that we've convinced women not to destroy or we abandon them with their decisions. In the meantime, what are we doing to change their minds about how they got in that position in the first place? What are we doing to assure that their children will not fall into the same trap? Absolutely nothing, that's what.
The godless liberals have raped our culture and robbed it of its values with relatively little resistance. Unless and until we set that part straight, then we are responsible for our national sins, whether it be widespread abortion or supporting the children that are allowed to live.