Friday, January 15, 2016

The three rules for staying out of poverty

Mrs ERJ unearthed this as we are tidying up the house.

The THREE rules

  1. Marry before having children
  2. Graduate from high school
  3. Get a job. 

Source

Government anti-poverty programs fail because such persistent poverty is not primarily material. It’s about relationships and behavior. Even in good times, fatherlessness and lack of work trap the underclass.
Unwed childbearing has risen from 6.3 percent of all births in 1964, when President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty, to more than 40 percent today. As Rector shows, these single-parent families with children are six times more likely to be poor than are married couples with kids. Put differently, marriage lowers the probability of child poverty by 82 percent.

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