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I feel like our family - who haven't qualified for these programs - paid for our own job re-training as well as all of these other people through our taxes.  I payed for my own retraining by working a grunt college bookstore job while taking classes over the course of several years - could not find anyone willing to help a lower middle class, white, female, housewife/mom with kids in college.  It would have been great to be working in my chosen field before the age of 52. 

Iam working now - and love it! Only took me a year to find a job! :)

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Thankyou for telling your stories - I know it is difficult - but it is essential for "average" people like yourself to tell these stories. This courage to do so leads to more awareness of how these things can happen (to the average person).   Awareness needs to happen before action can take place.  We musn"t sweep these things under the rug!

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