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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Real issue is no one has solutions to poverty's multigenerational effects on education. No one likes to tell poor people their children will end up the same. It's just one more way the promise of the American Dream isn't available to all.[/quote]

This is not true you know. There IS a solution and it is called extreme taxation, aka redistribution of wealth. It's just unpopular. If you taxed the UMC and rich at extremely high rates and redistributed this money to the poor such that every family had a living wage, you would see some progress. There is little support for it however.[/quote]

I actually think the opposite. I worked a minimum wage job in college. My coworkers knew exactly how much they could make before their welfare benefits would decrease and they wouldn't work any more than that. The benefits were holding them back. I had some really crazy stories. But basically they worked the job with me, got assistance with housing and food and had kids to get child support.

I believe in temporary assistance like TANF, but not continued assistance. [/quote]

But do the math, could you have worked enough min. wage hours and OT (probably wouldn't have been allowed to even if physically possible) to pay rent, utilities, health insurance for a family, feed and cloth kids, pay for transportation, and all the other life expense that a family has that you as a college student probably did not have?[/quote]

pp here. It actually was a career kind of place where you could get promotions and raises. Most made double minimum wage. It was a trained skill we learned similar to being a lab tech. They refused promotions because it would cut into benefits. I was actually good friends with them all and worked there for years. I was focused on getting out of there, but they just didn't see any other way out. [/quote]

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