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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would submit that for the plight of those on poverty as compared to other countries, the poor in the US are much better off. Are they $50 trillion better off? Probably not, but you cannot compare how people were living in poverty in the 1930's as opposed to today.[/quote]

50 years ago is 1967 but if you want to talk about poverty in the 1930s after the Great Depression, there was a higher rate of children living in married households.

[b]The Great Society programs contributed to the decline of marriage[/b] so that a large number of poor children now live in single parent or grandparent households   It is one of the worst effects of the Great Society [/quote]

Yes, let's blame it on the liberal agenda.[/quote]

That liberal bastion, the Brookings Institution, blamed the decline of marriage on the Great Society programs

To what do you attribute the decline in marriage, PP? 
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Marriage is declining among non-poor people as well. To what do you attribute that decline?[/quote]

Middle class women and above have higher earning power and dont have to rely on a spouse for economic viability

Poor women don't have to rely on a spouse for economic viability because government and charities provide for them.

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