Help for Lee County poor in jeopardy

[William769]

Some days, Christina Jelley opens the pantry in her four-bedroom Cape Coral home to see the abundance of canned food and cereal boxes.

Not that long ago, she was scrounging for coins in her couches to buy food to nourish her four children.
Every day, she relishes entering their rooms and calling out, "wake up little ones," and seeing them nestled in their own beds.
Not that long ago, the four who now range from 5 to 9, slept side-by-side, in a single bed in a North Fort Myers trailer.

Jelley credits a yearlong Lee County program backed by federal dollars that is a potpourri of life coaching, medical office skills education and social work with the aim of lifting families from poverty.
But the Lee Education and Employment Program is in jeopardy.

"It gave me a reassurance that everything was going to be all right," said Jelley, 30. And it was.
She graduated from the program in May 2009 and in less than two years she has found a job in a neurologist's office, got married, bought her own home and is off food stamps.

http://www.news-press.com/article/20110417/NEWS0101/104170397/1002/Lee-population-increases-more-than-40-percent--Collier-up-nearly-28-percent--Census-reports/Help-Lee-County-poor-jeopardy?odyssey=nav|head

This is a travesty.

[dkf]

1. Isn't this what we are supposed to learn in school?

And if not isnt that the problem?

[William769]

2. All those skills?