Meg Alcantara, a single mother of three, was working two jobs, but never getting ahead. She had no savings, lots of overdue bills, and hardly any hope getting a credit card, let alone ever owning a home.
Two years later, Alcantara, 49, of Lynn, is working just one job and earning 63 percent more after recently gaining a promotion to office manager at a physical therapy practice.

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This is an outlandish program that just hands out taxpayer money free for nothing. No wonder we have such a huge deficit problem. This is a program that has to be added to the current fiscal cliff negotiations as one of the expenditures that needs to be axed.