Back in school atm but my last job was about £6.50 an hour

Think that comes to about $14 an hour. not bad.

In Britain recently there has been an introduction of EMA's

Educational Maintainance Allowances which allow kids from lower income families to get about £30 a week just for turning up at school.

I don't want to be branded for judging all people like this, but evidence suggests that kids on EMA won't spend a penny of it on their education and won't bother acheiving high grades in school anyway, whereas kids from a higher income family are more likely to get a job to pay for their educational needs (ie stationary, whatever) and get higher grades in school anyway.

What I'm saying is; noone likes pikeys.