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Originally Posted by microbet
I read that. Obviously, everyone needs food. But I don't see education or safer schools and housing addressed. Does this research mean to say more welfare would mean more affordable housing in non crime ridden areas with better and safer schools? I didn't see that mentioned. Was it implied?
My biggest thing is inferior education and fatherless households. I read a study that shows a child growing up out of wedlock (or a fatherless household) is many times more likely to have problems in school and turn to criminality as he ages. This is not a race thing. It runs across ALL races. White kids growing up without father are just as susceptible to turning to a life of crime and ending up in jail as their black counterparts.
So that's what I want to see in these studies and figures. I'm not a puritan. I don't think there aren't mothers who can raise perfectly responsible kids without a father. But it takes much more work AND money! I don't see this talked about enough.
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And yet, you find the info provided by The Cato Institute, the think tank founded by Charles Koch, about the poverty trap to be irresistible.
Again, I'm not a sheep that can be herded. I'm unfamiliar with the Cato Institute or what the Koch brothers think or want. I just feel that it starts with equal education. I want to see these kids with the same equal shot at getting a solid education and college opportunities. Increases food stamps while providing them with basic necessities is not enough. It's almost like child support. I had to pay my ex a ton in child support. But she had ZERO responsibility to show that money went to my kids. She could've taken ski trips with it for all I know and feeding my kids Ramon noodles every day. Fortunately, I know she didn't do this, but many mothers do!