Maybe if more people thought people with out a college education deserve a livable wage.

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Its hopelessness.

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Why work a 40 hour a week job to make just enough for a small apartment, barely any food, no extras, knowing that all it takes is one sick week or weather or you're car quits working then you are back on the street to do it all over again.

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Along with no home, most jobs wont hire you with out a home address. Cant get a home address with a job. Cant afford college because no one will loan a homeless person college money. No one will load any money to someone with bad credit because of perpetual homelessness or barely making it by to go into debt over a missed bill because you had to get medicine. Cant afford Health Care because no extra money from the under livable wage job. Can't move up in any job because you have to work years at most non college, non trade school type jobs, to get to a livable wage and even then it isn't always livable.

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Head Manager at a Burger King I worked at made 22$ an hour to work 80+ hours a week, be the training manager also and training store. She worked 3 years to get to that position. 3 years to make a wage that is already under livable in most of the country. Even at 22$ and all this, she tried to find other jobs that would pay her worth in resume. All the other places offered her about the same with more or less options then current. It because, as i posted in another place, we actually have people who think finding a livable wage job is easy. It is not.

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I am a prior vet with 6 years of military school and 6 years of moving constantly up in my career field, 10 years in retail, 4 years in food, 4 years in other decent skill fields. 37 years old. Male. Decent shape. Cant find anyone willing to pay me over 18$ an hour. Which is not a livable wage at all, when the national average is above that, and even those people are almost living pay check to pay check. I cant afford college because I cant even afford a car. I ride to work on a bike no matter the weather. EVEN if i stay at the same job I am at and move up to the highest i can with out a college degree, and the position was actually open, I need to wait roughly 5 years to make 20$ an hour. So even if i work my ass off i still will be making less with annual raises then the natural inflation of our economy leading me to always be living pay check to pay check and no way to build retirement knowing I am going to be working until i die, with no health care, ill die a miserable most likely cancer death.

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So now days I just have enough to make me happy and be able to pack in a military bag and a back pack, in my apartment. Knowing any time I could not have enough and be homeless. It kinda makes being homeless seem just as easy when you get used to being homeless. Sure I love a roof over my head but I know its not permanent for me. It just takes one problem and poof.