Go to school after work or on your days off. We have a teacher at the training center. If you think that casino jobs don't pay, if you think they can't help change a life or situation, you are mistaken. But more importantly I thank my job for keeping me alive. I now have decent medical insurance, not free, but affordable.
Nothing is free.
Nurses and doctors looked at my medical card, decided I must be there only for drugs and left me untreated for so long that I now have a disease that will ultimately be the cause of my death, a disease that could have been prevented, if not for the stigma attached to a single piece of paper. Please don't forget my face, my name. Don't forget that I was once a welfare mother. Don't forget that my life is now changed. Don't forget that I still have a life because I work on a riverboat casino.