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I think somebody just bought something salute Ah Just a channel for news working, but poor millions in work and in poverty I got a lot to say about this copyright disclaimer under section 107 of the copyright act 1976 Allowance is made for fair use purposes such as criticism comment news reporting teaching scholarship and research Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing non-profit educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use No copyright infringement intended all rights belong to their respective owners true low-key YouTube premium Probably one of the best things that I ever done as a reaction channel besides learned how to be one of the best editors on the platform Let's get into this man. This is a real life thing working and still poor and like it's tough I shouldn't feel people be working just to survive. I shouldn't feel bad that I can't eat every day Sometimes you don't want to come home. She kept me, you know, I work five days a week and I still have to use a community shop Millions of people in the UK are in paid employment, but still struggling to make ends meet We are penny pinching with counting the pennies every day So I have school today and then after school right after school I have work So I could get home between 11 and half one Yeah, tired already Do I'm tired in this four day of school didn't go to work and Barely be able to eat in France. I didn't talk to my family. I just Live by myself. I have to do everything by myself The final year of school is never easy, but when you're on your own It's more than just exams and deadlines groceries budgets All of that kind of stuff. That's me. Otherwise, it just wouldn't get done I pack lunch packets of noodles because it's cheaper to do and you know, what's crazy, bro Like she said like she's on her own. She's really on her own She she lives by herself. She can't call nobody for help like a lot of people that are coming from like other like places Into the country like immigrant families That's really the that's really what it is Like you go you on your own. I got you here You got to do the rest Or I know at least growing up in Chicago the black community. I'm only speaking for the black community now I don't know about any other communities because I'm obviously black and grew up black Sorry, but I'm speaking on that that we have right now once you 18 You going really In most stories like you're out of there you get out Here's the world and I think that's the wrong way to do things I don't think that's the right way to do things I think other communities got it right and we got it wrong 100% Because that's not you at 18. We know nothing. We've been taught nothing in school about the real world Nothing has prepared nothing. We're not prepared and you know, it was shocking and Then parents wonder why we back at home at 25 like come on now But if anything ever goes wrong in my daughter's life, come on Period. I'll always have a room for you Or or or the couch is always but like you in there Don't even worry about it. First of all, I wouldn't even tell my daughter to leave You can stay until you're married. I don't care You get me but just don't let it be passed, you know, I'm saying Don't go crazy Everything's getting more expensive But you're not getting any richer. You're not getting paid anymore So it's like you either have to save excessively or you pay for food and You don't have money left over for bills and stuff like that Shouldn't feel bad that I can't eat every day. That's not a good thing at all. How long have you had to go without food? probably longest maybe two or three days Hopefully no one else has to be in this situation, but water helps like because you trick yourself into feeling for Kofira is retaking her last year of school after balancing work studies and housing became too much I was just skipping a lot more to work so that I'd have money to pay my rent by doing that I did almost cost myself my education School have helped me quite a bit. I think everyone knows this is stuff. We're not great for me I wasn't really eating properly sleeping properly Doing anything properly. I guess the hardest thing about it. It's like no one really taught me how to do it Politicians repeatedly tell voters the best way out of hardship is to get a job But for a growing number of people, it's just not enough when it's a Choice between you get some new shoes and you don't okay. It's some new shoes easy choice. My daughter getting My let's be real. My daughter's shoes is $10 You buy yourself some super glue to glue your shoes together and I do and it shouldn't have to be like that But you're making the right choice and the heart is hard. I shouldn't Don't do a week only. Oh, yeah, yeah, please shop. I can shop daily for bargains and I can go from one supermarket to another We are penny pinching with counting about juice every day once you've Got to give the quarter to an Audi out there dang. That's worldwide Ventures for the amount. How much are you left with nothing? Nothing. We're not living a life. I think we just For the last 14 years Melanie has been working in a local school as a learning support assistant I've always had at least one or two jobs. What works for every call center seasonal work local football team cleaning Being there go the T-shirt as Americans and as Brits like we're in a society Where we one job is not enough you got to have a side hustle or you got to have multiple jobs Or you got you look like and I say side hustle and stuff I don't condone, but you got to be sometimes people I have working a regular nine to five and putting their jeopardizing their freedom just to live Because it's not enough to just work a regular nine to five. It's honestly, it's not Like even if you have a degree or GSEs or what or what or you went to university and Some of that stuff is obsolete. It's all cap Not all of it, but it's some of it is like Do it for you children all three of my children they've seen mum doing the best We have a lot of staff illnesses due to being overworked and you've bushed you got so much you've got nothing left when you come home and you think to yourself Is it worth me getting up and going to work in the morning knowing? I could I could do half the hours that I wanted to and get my rent paid council tax paid But it's pride ended there Where Melanie lives in Yorkshire almost one in four people live in poverty in the Northeast the situation is even worse And living in poverty almost always means struggling to put food on the table As food bank use reaches record highs Community shops like this one in South Tyneside are popping up all over the country to fill the gap between rising costs and stagnant wages So I'll be getting some eggs some bananas and potatoes This community shops is free or something my little boy loves eggs, so it's worth it if you get that You're allowed to come here once a week because four pounds. I only work on time However, I'm above the threshold for getting any kind of help from sort of the government and I can't be referred to a food bank So even though I'm struggling and I'm a single parent and I can't I can't get any help from anywhere So this is a good way to do it when you sort of leave school. You never think right This is gonna be feeling like the government promotes being a bum They're gonna help you more if you don't do nothing But if you really out here try and put in the effort trying to it's literally impossible to be a single parent and work a Nine eight a night eight to twelve hour shift job You can't because you're gonna be like You're literally gonna be like depriving your kids of your attention You're gonna be a deadbeat in some and one aspect So they look like maybe from even here, bro They promote single parent households. You get more money if you don't have a dad or a father in the household like it's insane And if you may using using help from people using community shops using food banks, you think you're gonna be able to provide and Sometimes some weeks. I can't there's no way I would ever buy this from a supermarket Only because it's just too expensive six dollars. I work my wife real serial You ever been to the bro, I live in Florida a regular size Let's just say family size a family size of Kellogg's Captain Crunch is 649 Since we in and didn't have the nerve to expire I pay 649 for something that might expire on me and I might not even get to bro I'm blue And me I can't I can't buy not Like unnamed brand cereal It don't hit the same. I promise you it don't people try to fake it like it do hit the same. No, it don't If I want Captain Crunch, I'm getting Captain Crunch not not not You know, I'm saying not sailors crunch, you know, I don't want the sailor. I want the captain pause Also works what recently our kids just came into the country four of them So it's they eat a lot what we make as income is probably not enough It's just minimum way to it doesn't cover the bills the rent And everything we need to pay for So that's basically why I have to come doesn't make sense that we have to do with you all this That's what if I don't we're working full-time Record numbers of people in the UK are finding work But many of those jobs are insecure and while inflation rates are slowly improving real-term wages and benefits aren't keeping up So yeah, it's half-term this week, which it's nice to have time off and it is to switch off Is this great? You know, we're at home all day now budget in your gas your electric, you know, what you're gonna eat this week Cheese and butter, please. I used to cook every day And now I can't afford to do a meal every day So when you do you cook doubles for the next phase they're just to warm up This for my children when they go out and be Their own little adults and get their own lives out that I don't want that And I don't want most of the time Now here's my theory, man. I don't know I could die. I might be just waffle it on about now But most of the time if you're a parent and you're struggling if your kids see you struggling But you're still in it like but you're still instilling good morals in them. You have to be active for this to work You have to be a positive role model for your child for this to work 100% of the time I'm even throwing numbers out there if you struggling real bad and you allow your kid to see it But you are in their lives Actively Being a role model they will grow up to be 100 times better Than you could have imagined They will want they will strive to get you out of that situation It will put it will instill something in them That is like we call it a dog. There will become a dog in real life And they will get paid and they will and they will change normally they will change the trajectory of a family But you got to have a pot you got to be pot you got it They got to have a positive role model or you got to be that positive role model But don't don't this is me, man I don't I don't believe you should not shield your kid from your struggle because they will they will Eventually walking that same struggle if they don't see it You get what I'm saying That's just my advice if you struggling let your kid know hey, it is what it is. Hey, I'm Look I'm struggling Look at me. I can't I got to choose between the heat or the light Between my me eating or you eating you're gonna get it 100% of the time because I love you And that's what I should do But you're gonna be great And watch they're gonna be great 100% I'm telling you I'm telling you I'm telling you and to see me struggling Let them see you struggling, but at the same time Input life into them with your words watch watch What would you like to see happen? I'd like to see our wages be To make I have a better quality of life I don't I'm not wanting a flash car. I'm not wanting fancy trainers I just want to be able to get up in the morning. I think I can put my heating on today And that's all that we need go to work work your back side. I have to come home and enjoy What is the flatters grilled cheese? I have to enjoy we need to be heard. We need to be seen And we need to be believed Order number 74 I've sacrificed time with my friends to Work most people my age work part-time just so that they can Go on holidays and do extra stuff. I'm working part-time to support myself I don't have time to work full-time job. I just go Straight from school to work I'm not dropping out That's not even an option. I want an education I want to do a lot more than I'm doing right now. She got the dog in her She's seen some she's seen some stuff Being toured for social services, but too young for the full universal credit My age holds me back from getting support. The fact I'm in full-time education holds me back from getting support It's oh get a job. I have a job I've definitely matured. I've gotten louder like I talk I talk a lot more I Tolerate things less because I've seen the way the world can be Brand broken that you grow up quick. I want to study politics to Hopefully become an MP and I can fix the mess that this country is in and I know a lot of people won't like that And that's okay. I I really couldn't care less. I yeah, because I don't want anyone else to grow up the way that I've had to see, you know what I'm saying She's very aware of how she grew up And look look how hard she's working right now to get herself out of that situation The proof I be I I'll be spending real stuff She is very aware of the way she grew up. She wasn't shielded from it. She's seen it. She understands That she grew up poor And she does not want to experience this anymore or she does not want it for her kids either She is a dog. She instilled that dog that that instilled the dog and her That dog characteristic to go out and get it no matter what I'll be promised or something The number of I believe you working adults living in poverty has risen 56 percent in 25 years Back in the day my dad worked my mom stayed at home and you had everything and now two people can work and you still can't even afford To put a meal on the table and a night time and they want to be heard It's like the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and That's a very difficult cycle to break We're not just a number with people. That's true The rich do get richer and the poor do get poorer because that poor mentality is passed down through generationals Generations and that rich mentality is also passed down through generations Generational curses man. We got to break them. Simple is that If I have a guy or you want and I think those that I've got and like you said my bad, it starts with the mental If you can break it mentally The kid going to take care of the rest I don't realize what it is to go without A government spokesperson said we are providing 104 billion pounds in cost of support worth on average 3700 pounds per household Including investing over 2 billion pounds in the household support fund to help those most in need as well as boosting And benefit since 2010 there are 1.7 million fewer people living in poverty And we know work is the best route out of poverty So we're going even further raising the national living wage cutting national insurance curbing inflation And investing billions throughout back to work plan to break down barriers to work So even more people can secure long-term financial security Hey, man, listen, man, till I leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post I say what I have to say, I'm a girl