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To: mph who wrote (21734)	6/22/2006 12:07:07 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543766

Well, one big thing would be to integrate low income families into the communities at large, rather than segregate them in subsidized housing complexes. Although, you know, they seem to like those housing complexes. They hang out with their friends, have someone to help out with baby sitting and keep an eye out for them and so forth. But they get negative reinforcement from other people making bad choices. Look at what happened after Katrina, when all the poor inner city New Orleanians were reshuffled all over the country. There were pockets of dislocated crime but only in cities that took in large numbers of refugees and lumped them back together, like Houston. Another thing is, what is the difference between the middle class and the lower class? Delayed gratification. How do you inculcate people with the ability to delay gratification? Teach them to be goal oriented. Which won't work unless the goals actually pay off for them. If black women and poor white women look around and see that elite white women are almost nowhere to be found, almost none in the higher echelons of corporations, almost none in positions of power in government, almost none as wealthy entrepreneurs in their own right, why would they believe that working hard will pay off for them?