My compassion for this case dropped quickly with "seven children plus pregnant wife." You're right. It's a small percentage of families who can support that sized family in a popular area even with both parents working. Concord? An immigrant without skills or a common language? Where do I sign up?
Sounds like the program is in trouble. I wonder if they could form their own secondary economy? Some sort of BantuTown with service connections to the larger community. Could new "chinatowns" be viable? Textiles are imported so the pickings fall to service industries and tourism.
I was hoping this wasn't an "Evil America" post. 
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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