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[World Traveler]

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2003/09/childrenfamilies-haskins

TL;DR:

"Most people are poor in the United States because they either do not work or work too few hours to move themselves and their children out of poverty. More specifically, the heads of poor families with children worked only one half as many hours, on average, as the heads of nonpoor families with children"

"Another striking difference between the poor and nonpoor is the much smaller proportion of the poor who are married. In 2001, 81 percent of nonpoor families with children were headed by married couples. This compares to only 40 percent among poor families with children"

"Still a third difference between the poor and the nonpoor is in levels of education. The average head of a poor family with children is a high school dropout"

"Finally, poor families have more children than the nonpoor, requiring that their limited incomes support more people."
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Here's another good article:

Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/two-classes-in-america-divided-by-i-do.html?pagewanted=1&%2360&%2359&_r=2&hp&%2359;http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/us/two-classes-in-america-divided-by-i-do.html

"Less-educated women are also more likely to have children with more than one man. Analyzing nearly 2,000 mothers in their mid- to late 20s, Child Trends found that a third of those with high school degrees or less already had children with multiple men."

[PatrickGHBusan]

OK I see what you meant now WT.

Thanks

[TheUrbanMyth]

[World Traveler]

[World Traveler]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/21/study-in-most-states-welfare-pays-more-than-minimum-wage-job/

"The federal government currently funds 126 separate anti-poverty programs at an annual cost of $688 billion."

Wow. That's just the federal government. With the state and local governments added in, a TON of money is being given to poor people in the U.S.

[bucheon bum]

[Fox]

[Kuros]

[World Traveler]

A big problem in America is people who shouldn't be having children are bringing children into the world (by the millions). Look at this link:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/wwii-veteran-survived-bullet-okinawa-dies-attack-washington-parking-lot-article-1.1434708
Do you think the attackers came from dead beat parents (poor people who suck at raising kids and who should not be having kids, especially multiple kids)? I do.

[Leon]

[World Traveler]

[Leon]

[World Traveler]

I didn't come from generational poverty. My grandparents were lower middle class or middle class. My parents didn't stay poor forever. If they needed money, they could have asked their parents for it.

But yeah being poor sucks. My life would have been better had my parents had more money. I certainly didn't reach my full potential. When I was a kid, I was way smarter than others my age. Maybe it was just chance. Or maybe it was (intermittent) good parenting from my (non generationally poor) parents. But yes, I have had a lot of misery in my life, and there are many times when I wish I hadn't been born. I feel sad thinking about this and typing this.

[radcon]

[World Traveler]

And you are too, Conrad. So I guess we have a lot to be thankful for. (But I don't really like traveling anymore; it's just an old user name I chose before I had traveled the world.)

About the topic: I lived in government housing in Flint, Michigan for a bit. Did the government handouts help my life? Probably not. I think a lack of them (or reduction of them...or at least a revision to how they are distributed) can change a society for the better.