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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.brookings.edu/articles/three-simple-rules-poor-teens-should-follow-to-join-the-middle-class/

3 rules to avoid poverty:

1. Finish High School
[b]2. Have a full-time job[/b]
3. Don't marry or have kids before age 21.

Just doing these three things gives you a 98% change of not living in poverty. Come on people. [/quote]

The finishing HS and not marrying/having kids early is something largely in your control. Businesses, however, are making it increasingly hard to have consistent full-time jobs without a college degree. Businesses don't want to provide benefits so they'll say they are only for FT employees but keep everyone at PT level even if they could use people to work more. And, they create massive instability in workers' lives with "just in time scheduling", expecting people in minimum wage jobs to essentially be on call at all times. It is exploitative and should be illegal (as it is in some cities). The biggest economic problem we have is that C-Suite salaries have been allowed to grow out of all proportion to worker salaries. Businesses whine that they can't raise pay or add staff while CEO compensation and profits soar. Yes, they can afford it, they just don't want to.[/quote]

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