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[quote=Anonymous]OP why is it worse to grow up upper middle class and lose that “status” than to grow up poor and stay poor?

I ask because I grew up very poor in rural America with divirced parents and a dad that didn’t pay child support.  We were on welfare, food stamps, housing assistance and anything else you can think of.  My mom raised us as a single parent with government assistance and no help from dad.  she worked part time for a while but then switched to going to college.  She made it through college by attending classs when we were in school and studying after we were home and on weekends.  She took us to the final exams and had friends watch us outside the room she was taking the exam.  Mom got a good job, off welfare, and into the middle class (now upper middle class).  Clinton changed welfare so now you must work to receive it and there are more limits to how long you can receive it.  Under the new system we would still be poor.

I feel bad for people that fall from the upper middle class but it isn’t like they can’t recover if they put in the work.[/quote]

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