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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Roland Ellis is a leading economist who grew up poor. He acknowledges that he beat the odds, but he doesn't blame people who don't. He simply but profoundly asks "So you start to think, how do we create the right structures, because -- birth is an accident; neither me nor my cousins asked to be born into Daytona Beach’s issues -- how do you create structures so that people don’t just beat the odds, but so that you change the damn odds."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/30/roland-fryer-on-beating-the-odds-change-the-damn-odds/?utm_term=.39d483e9bba4[/quote]

As far as I can tell (working in anti-poverty advocacy for decades), the only way to prevent poverty is to not bring babies into the world unless you can afford to provide for them...as well as love and nurture them. Of course, there's no way to legislate such a thing.

You'll notice as you read Evicted (or google it) that families with kids are evicted at a much higher rate. Childless poor people have more options: they can more easily work jobs that entail irregular shifts, they can have a side gig, they can rent a room (rather than an apartment or house) and keep costs low thanks to roommates, no childcare costs or worries, no missed work because kids are sick, etc.

This sounds very reasonable until you start to consider daycare costs. So only wealthy people should be allowed to have kids?

This is one of the biggest differences between those who make it and those who don't. [/quote][/quote]

Only responsible people should have children. By saying "allowed" it implies only wealth is correlated to responsibility. [/quote]

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