Depends on what you call decent funding. The small town I grew up in the school teachers lived in a lake resort and drove big new conversion vans to school every day while the rest of the population lived in trailers. I live within a city now and my property taxes are higher than all the suburbs due to a new school tax being added a few years ago yet the suburbs have better school still. Throwing more money at a broken system won't fix it. And giving better schools to people that refuse to learn won't help them either. Not saying everyone in that situation isn't willing to learn, but having come from a poor county in WV I can say that better than half the kids I was in school with didn't want to learn and my wife growing up in the city school can say the same about her classmates.
Minimum wage jobs are not a career. Minium wage jobs are temp jobs for college students to work until the graduate then get a real job. I worked miniumum wage for 4 years through college and I can tell you from experiance that most of the people stuck in those minimum wage jobs have the same attitude that someone else should take care of them, either the union or the government and they refuse to learn anything or try to do anything to better themselves.