10 Poverty Myths, Busted.. higher minimum wages would help ..
No, single moms aren't the problem. And neither are absentee dads.
—By Erika Eichelberger | March/April 2014 Issue
Karen Pulfer Focht/The Commercial Appeal/ZUMA
1. Single moms are the problem. Only 9 percent of low-income, urban moms have been single throughout their child's first five years. Thirty-five percent were married to, or in a relationship with, the child's father for that entire time.*
2. Absent dads are the problem. Sixty percent of low-income dads see at least one of their children daily. Another 16 percent see their children weekly.*
3. Black dads are the problem. Among men who don't live with their children, black fathers are more likely .. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf .. than white or Hispanic dads to have a daily presence in their kids' lives.
4. Poor people are lazy. In 2004, there was at least one adult with a job in 60 percent of families .. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3894#_ftn3 .. on food stamps that had both kids and a nondisabled, working-age adult.
5. If you're not officially poor, you're doing okay. The federal poverty line for a family of two parents and two children in 2012 was $23,283 .. http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/13poverty.cfm. Basic needs cost at least twice that .. http://www.epi.org/resources/budget/ .. in 615 of America's cities and regions.
6. Go to college, get out of poverty. In 2012, about 1.1 million people who made less than $25,000 a year, worked full time, and were heads of household had a bachelor's degree.**
.. yeah 3Saints higher minimum wages would help .. i wonder how long it will be before your Chamber of Commerce openly supports that view .. or even how long for you .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=97455062 .. and SilverSurfer, too? .. a 2014 search of his for "minimum wage" found nothing, which suggests he doesn't give a damn, either ..
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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