Bryan is a Fremont man who, on his string of low-paying jobs, lived in
his car for a while. Metroka has worked as a tow-truck driver, restaurant
cook and convenience-store clerk. The most money he has earned in a month
is the $1,400 in take-home pay from a towing company.
(Alameda Time Star, 5/27/96)
Fremont resident Kim Kraftschik, a single mom, waited more than two years
before she found a reasonable daycare program for her son, Christopher,
now 3. Kraftschik paid $400 a month for private daycare. She doesn't receive
support from her son's father. Kraftschik earns roughly $24,000 a year as
an office clerk at Voysys Corporation, a voice processing system company
in south Fremont. After paying her $710 monthly rent, the rest of her earnings
goes for various monthly bills: $60 for phone and utilities; $200 for food;
$40 for gas; $330 in car payment and $100 for car insurance. She brings
her lunch to work and limits her driving.
(Alameda Time Star, 5/27/96)
Aimee Mahan, 23, hasn't been able to get the full-time job she needs
to get herself off Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) because
she can't afford an affordable, full-time day-care program. The Livermore
resident wanted a year and a half to get Tyler, 4, into a free, state-funded
part-time program. "All my life since I was 16 I've had a job. You
get to a point where you feel like, 'Oh, my God. I'm nothing.' You feel
like a kid is a bad thing because you can't support it," she said of
her frustrations. Mahan is "barely making it" with the $200 she
earns every two weeks, $490 she receives from AFDC and monthly rent taking
up $500 of it. Mahan works part-time for a dental supply warehouse.
(Alameda Time Star, 5/27/96)
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