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To: Lane3 who wrote (212756)	7/20/2007 5:04:31 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794040

>> The objective is to make them responsible, self-supporting, and productive members of the team Good. On this we agree. Now it is very difficult, if not impossible, to break the cycle of poverty if all you have is to barely make it through life and survive. I'd say at the very least, to effectively break the cycle of poverty one needs have his realistic basic living needs met, a safe environment (read mostly free of violent crime) and access to proper education. Obviously we have not met this challenge or poverty would have long been eliminated from the richest country in the world. There were a couple of major studies that looked into how likely one is to move up the social ladder and the US did not fare very well in it. The studies showed that the number one criteria for moving up was access to good education, followed by the ability of families to spend sufficient time together in a healthy environment.