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To: combjelly who wrote (312149)	11/24/2006 3:43:39 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573822

Your parents should have moved, it's stupidity that kept them below the poverty rate, pure and simple

To: combjelly who wrote (312149)	11/24/2006 4:52:51 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573822

Family disorganization is more important than either race or income in explaining violent crime. While it is true that both poor people and African-Americans commit more crime than do wealthier and white ones, the sociologist Robert Sampson has shown that in poor neighborhoods the rate of violent crime is much more strongly correlated with family disorganization than it is with race. William Galston, once an assistant to President Clinton, put the matter simply. To avoid poverty, do three things: finish high school, marry before having a child, and produce the child after you are 20 years old. Only 8% of people who do all three will be poor; of those who fail to do them, 79% will be poor.