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Bullshit. Get a job at Home Depot. Take a bar tending class. Live with folks for the first two years.Three Simple Rules Poor Teens Should Follow to Join the Middle Class
It has nothing to do with oppression, race, religion, etc.
Follow three simple rules and you will not be poor:
#1) Graduate High School
#2) Get a job
#3) Don't become a single parent.
This is from the LEFT leaning Brookings Institute. One way to pay down debt and improve our budget is to reduce entitlements such as welfare and this is a start.
Today, more than 40% of American children, including more than 70% of black children and 50% of Hispanic children, are born outside marriage.
The above is ridiculous. I would even consider paying young women NOT to have kids until marriage or they can afford it to make sure they don't get on welfare and continue this cycle.
I welcome all your thoughts. Even the crazy Leftist ones.To an extent you are correctThree Simple Rules Poor Teens Should Follow to Join the Middle Class
It has nothing to do with oppression, race, religion, etc.
Follow three simple rules and you will not be poor:
#1) Graduate High School
#2) Get a job
#3) Don't become a single parent.
This is from the LEFT leaning Brookings Institute. One way to pay down debt and improve our budget is to reduce entitlements such as welfare and this is a start.
Today, more than 40% of American children, including more than 70% of black children and 50% of Hispanic children, are born outside marriage.
The above is ridiculous. I would even consider paying young women NOT to have kids until marriage or they can afford it to make sure they don't get on welfare and continue this cycle.
I welcome all your thoughts. Even the crazy Leftist ones.
But your prospects of escaping poverty have decreased in recent decades as the compensation for HS Graduates has decreased as have career advancement opportunities in the workplace
I am under the impression that lots of low end, low paying jobs exist.
If I graduate from high school but can't afford college
so I get a job (low paying)
I'm only going to be making 8-12 an hour
for LESS than 40 hours (by todays method)
call it 36 hours at $10.per....
360 a week.....minus 60 for taxes and crap
300 X 4 = 1200 a month
rents start at 1000....
gotta eat
lights
heat
cell phone
sounds like a whole lot of no fun!
And ya still can't afford education
so you will never rise much higher than you are
which means for your whole life you'll be making less than what you need to get married and raise a family
bleak
Where there is a will there is a way