...anybody know just how much start-up money is needed to get a small convenience store going? [[non-gas station)..
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...anybody know just how much start-up money is needed to get a small convenience store going? [[non-gas station)..
These young girls want to move out on their own, get their own place. A child will get them welfare and therefore money for their own place. There is an incentive to have multiple children that they cannot afford to care for. Having children is a "career" move for them.
Not a consequence free existence. The post-child bearing years come... the late 40's and 50's and with no skill, education or work history women who made this choice are often not able to enter the work force. The few older adult service organizations we have see this scenario daily.
It's the price of doing business in the ghetto, don't matter if its a party store, gas station or coney, my friend bought a coney in the city the first thing he did was remove the seating, so his customers wouldn't hang out there,
blame it on the schools or teachers, or police, never the violent sub culture
Hit the nail on the head right there.
So long as there exists a subculture that glorifies "street life", the cycle will never be broken.
Here is a good paper folks may want to check out.
The culture industry, hip hop music and the white perspective: How one-dimensional representation of hip hop music has influenced white racial attitudes.
While it discusses what the hip-hop industry has done to influence how whites view blacks, it's clear that many black [[and white) youths have completely bought into the message and themes many of these songs convey.