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Poverty

raccoon

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3. My guess is one reason is that there are so many single mothers. Not necessarily

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Wed Dec 14, 2011, 11:13 AM

Dec 2011

of any particular ethnicity either.

I remember some news program like 20/20 doing a show about poverty in Indiana and the
reporter talked to a young woman who had one child when she was a h.s. junior, one the next year,
and one the year after that. Not surprisingly, she was poor.

I realize there are other reasons for child poverty, such as the country has lost many good-paying jobs
in the last few decades.

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One in five American children is growing up in poverty today. [View all] Scuba Dec 2011 OP

But some people blame that on the liberals. Quantess Dec 2011 #1

It would be interesting to see a chart showing the growth of poverty in the last 30 years - the jwirr Dec 2011 #2

My guess is one reason is that there are so many single mothers. Not necessarily raccoon Dec 2011 #3