We've spent 4-6 trillion dollars in the "war on poverty" in the past 40 years. At what point do you accept that a transfer of wealth doesn't work.
It's the old "give a man a fish........."
Some people will be poor even if given a million dollars. There will just be a short period in their life that they weren't poor.
Rodney King is a prime example. He got millions after his nationally televised role as an LAPD piñata, but pissed it all away and wound up back in jail inside of two years. Poverty isn't a financial circumstance, it's a state of mind.
A agree. Lately I have taken up the sport of pondering the obvious such as the saying, "The Rich get Richer."
People who are good at making, saving and investing money usually stay that way and/or get better at it as they go along. The same goes for those who are not and do not.
The definition of poor has changed.
As someone who became fatherless in the depression I know what poor means. It was a struggle for food,clothing,and shelter and we went without a telephone until 1953.
Poor today means no cable,no computer,no summer camp,neo cell phone,and no "in" wardrobe or jewelry.
It boggles the mind.