sick parent. what they re saying, their message is this is actually been financially successful for us in allowing us to retain important employees and, yes, while there is a cost upfront in the long run, it means a better and happier work force. and that makes a lot of economic sense, richard. nbc white house correspondent chris jansing. one of 12 walmart moms there today. a 25-year-old single mom working a the illinois walmart. many of the employees making less than $25,000 a year and having to take on food stamps. she joins us with more. good morning. you take home about $700 a month. how do you divide that up? i divide it up by i use $300 for my son s school. he goes to school and i pay $300 a month for school. and the rest goes toward my car note and goes toward a little bit of food. i also have my parents. they help me out a lot. i still live there. they help you as well.
financially, put some of the money toward that, so you have something to show for it. the worst possible thing is to get the money back, blow it, and now er in a worse financial position than before you got the money in the first place. a lot of folks look at the debt they carry not the credit card debt but other debt still in digits and why should i rush to pay that off when the feds keep rates this low and i don t have to. let s say, for example, consumer debt, if it s a home mortgage, car note, rates are very low. then you can make the case, why pay it off? i m maybe better off continue vest the money and use my money to make some money. then we want to look at paying it up. the key here is to look at an ira, look at your savings account, look at ways to put this as seed money, let it grow for you and now the money is working for you as opposed to against you. when the interest rates get too high, it s better to chip away at the debt and make sure you re working for the mon
americans like reggie, we got to get them ready to take those jobs. number three, we ve got to guarantee every child access to a world class education because that s where the foundation starts for them to be able to get a good job. and then number four, we got to make sure hard work pays off. if you work hard, you should be able to support a family. you may not end up being wildly rich, but you should be able to pay your mortgage, your car note, look after your family, maybe take a vacation once in a while. especially when it s kind of cold. yeah. at the state of the union i was going to start out by saying the state of the union is cold, but i decided that was not entirely
to take those jobs. number three, we ve got to guarantee every child access to a world class education because that s where the foundation starts for them as well. and number four we have to make sure hard work pays off. if you work hard you should be able to support a family. you may not end up being wildly rich but you should be able to pay your mortgage your car note, look at your family maybe take a vacation once in a while. especially when it s kind of cold. yeah. at the state of the union i was going to start off by saying the state of the union is cold but i decided that was not entirely
but in the meantime, the insurance keeps them from falling off a cliff. it makes sure they can pay their car note to go to that interview. it makes sure they can pay tear cell phone bill so their cell phone bill so that if somebody calls back for an interview, they can answer it. and katherine explained this. katherine, in the letter she wrote to me, said that do folks really think that cutting this benefit will make someone hire me? that s not how employers are thinking. so letting unemployment insurance expire for millions of americans is wrong. congress should make things right. i am very appreciative that they re on their way to doing just that thanks to the bipartisan work of two senators. we had a democrat from rhode island, senator reed, and you