Jack Brennan

1.  Alex and Morgan were good at budgeting because they had a lot of time to plan ahead.  Except while the kids were there and near the end Morgan began to splurge too much.
2.  Alex and Morgan only survived because they budgeted what they could afford to eat and how they could afford for transportation.
3.  Race was not a factor for Morgan because he got a temp job so they just give everyone what's available without thinking twice.  Alex possibly got hired easier because she's white but getting that job would not be hard anyway.
4.  I probably would have just walked away because the landlord was clearly not a great person anyway.
5.  Gerald is right that the cost of living has increased and minimum wage does not cut it anymore.  I think that after 25 years of work, however, Gerald could have found a better job and could be making enough money.
6.  I think that raising minimum wage would put a lot of places out of business.  Although it would immediately help the poor, the economy should be built from the middle class out, not from the lower class up.
7.  The working poor are the poor people who work hard to try and live a happy life but they cannot achieve that goal no matter what they do or how hard they work.
8.  She realized how much they have in their real life that people like 30 day Alex and Morgan would kill for.  She never used to understand how meaningful just having a chair and a table is.
9.  First of all I would have been more careful in the first place so as to avoid getting hurt, but I would eventually have to go to the doctor.  If children were involved I would have taken my chances with the free clinic because it would be impossible to pay off the debt to the hospital and it would ruin their lives.
10.  I am really not surprised because if a homeless man was living there before them he clearly didn't pay his electric bill but at first he got electricity which was stealing from the electric company.
11.  Morgan and Alex got in an argument over finances not just because they couldn't afford buns but also because Morgan was getting to be the fun dad while Alex was forced to be the voice of reason and be less liked by the kids.