[the invisib1e hand]

poor whites are stupid, and are getting what they deserve. poor blacks are victims.

You do get it, don't you?

[riri]

that the solution to poverty is education

Another thoughtless and often repeated mantra of the left. Ask the PhDs in the former USSR who had to resort to turning tricks to eat if the solution to poverty is education.

[hershey]

It’s perfectly clear that black ‘leaders’ like Jackson, Maxine Waters, Charlie Rangel, and big Al Sharpton have done a superlative job of seizing poverty and draping it around the black community’s neck. Oh, and there’s a tag on it that blames whites. Racism? You bet, and it’s paid off for them in the millions.

[CriticalJ]

Vouchers anyone?

[SampleMan]

Most generally speaking, the solution to poverty is not education. It is persistently hard work and the desire to do better.

People that work hard will almost always do better than people who are just smart. I've seen a lot of very smart, very well educated people make crap of their lives. Conversely, I've seen a lot of people who have a hard time reading a book or doing algebra start their own companies.

[tacticalogic]

This is yet another story that the mainstream media has not covered. Is the welfare bureaucracy working well anywhere in the laboratory of the states? If so, how, and why?

The media can't take it's eyes off of it's new darling in DC and the Democrat's neo-New Deal "Big, racially conscious federal government does it better" ideas.

[2ndDivisionVet]