Ways to get through college when you have virtually nothing: 1. Go in to the military and serve to obtain the post 9/11 Montgomery G.I. Bill. 2. Go to a community college and utilize BOG fee waivers and grants to not only completely pay for college, but also make money via grant while there (nearly everyone qualifies... especially low income people). 3. Setup a GTA from a community college to go to a state university which will effectively pay for the majority of your final two years of under grad school. 4. Find a great two year program that equates to high pay and good career like being an R.N. (in my state RN's make 80K to 100K annually) and this doesn't even require ever going to a four year college. You can obtain this at the community college level. These are just some of the options available to most of the people that I know that live the social welfare life. All the ones I know could have taken advantage of any of these or multiple and got ahead in life if they just would have been willing to sacrifice and work for it. But they would never do that. Way too tough. I suspect it is because they are lazy and all of that above is harder than sitting on their ass all day eating frozen pizza bites. See you seem to tend to see the world in the light of, "Hey man, it's tough out there... show some compassion.. people are trying." I see the world through the lens of, "Seems like people are lazy and make excuses. I'm sick of having to sacrifice money from my paycheck that could be going towards my family to let people not work because life is tough and scary."