Why it's expensive to be poor

Re:Why it's expensive to be poor by lutorm on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @08:49PM (#619640)

"The notion however that your future path is set because of your past choices is part of the myth that the poor need to have destroyed through education. Tomorrow is about what you do tomorrow, not about what you did yesterday."

More blame-the-victim rethoric. Suppose what you did yesterday was give away all your belongings save what you wear, erase all higher education and job experience from your brain, and teleported you and your family to a city where you don't know anyone. You are now in an equivalent situation to many poor people. Now tell me with a straight face that what you do tomorrow would be unaffected.

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Re:Why it's expensive to be poor by run4yourlives on Thursday May 21, 2009 @02:15AM (#619979)

I'm not blaming the victim, I'm recognizing the only real solution.

I never said it would be easy, as it certainly wasn't for me. It is however the only method of success, period.

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Re:Why it's expensive to be poor by lutorm on Thursday May 21, 2009 @05:39PM (#621161)

I think we should focus more on why people end up in poverty than trying to "make them not poor". Prevention is likely to be more effective than correction. Things like living wages and abandoning local funding of schools would probably help.

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