Actually...
As I spent time in the trailer park, both living then later owning properties -
I've seen people get out of rehab, jail, divorce, whatever, and turn things around. You can get an efficiency - 1 BR with a bed and tv and bathroom - for $150 a week around here with no problem, and $100 a week if you don't mind bugs.
You go to Labor pool, AbleBody, ManPower, whatever your local day labor place is. You make $10 an hour, you might be digging ditches, you might be getting walmart shopping carts, who knows. But you can make $80 per day. That's $400 per week you can earn, just working 5 days and no nights or weekends. Spend 100 on rent, and 100 on bus/food, and you put away $200 per wk.
Go down to your local community college on your first day off. Sign up. You'll get grants and loans out the ass. They'll pay for all your classes and you'll have a few grand left over per semester to get yourself a better place to stay, better car, better everything.
I was 18 and dead broke living in the trailer park, playing basketball every day, no plan for college, no car, no job, etc. No one in my family on either side has ever finished college, and only a few ever walked the high school stage. I got a job at the grocery store (walked 2 miles to work in FL heat until I could afford a bike, rode till I could afford a shitty car with no A/C). I got a car, applied at college, got loans, got books, kept working. Today I'm an MBA with a teaching degree and multiple computer certifications, I work 5 hours a day from home in my PJs while playing with my son, and I play in a band at night for fun. I do what I want in life now, because I worked so hard as a youth. My brother and sister are still poor, wallowing in the same mess I came from.
You CAN get ahead in America, you just have to bust your ass and not be stupid with your $.
LIES LIES LIES...YOU ARE STILL WITH YOUR MUM....
Here is a little math for you...Work for ten dollars per hour for forty hours per week you get four hundred dollars...RIGHT!!!!...Where do you work where taxes are not taken out??? More like work forty hours per week and get 300 dollars if you are lucky. Take 250 dollars of that and maybe you can find a efficiency... now try and survive on 50 bucks per week. IN the case of this woman who is now homeless and 65 college is out of the question. BTW...I don't know what school you are attending that is so generous with grants, scholarships and federal loans...In case you are a 75 year old man living back in the days of WHEN...grants, scholarships and loans are just about a thing of the past. I had to help my sister pay for her nephew to go to college simply because the government grants and scholarships that he received on top of the bank loans was insufficient.... GREED has taken over college...even local and community colleges are expensive, and they know there are no jobs available for those who graduate...at least not at a pay scale that is livable, so they are trying to make all of their money off of the enrollees. Soon everyone will be pretending to be a Mexican just to get a job.
BTW you have the same mentality as this woman...thinking that you will always be able to get over and that nothing will happen to you...you are the prime candidate for everything to happen top you and when it does just remember your comments about her