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To: D. Long who wrote (212786)	7/20/2007 6:28:56 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794046

But I am talking about the majority. The "poor" are not just a static group. They also get added to for a variety of reasons. For example because a middle class family had to work too hard and did not spend enough time with their teenagers who ended up making the wrong choices. More often however the reason is a lot simpler. A very large number of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck but the character of risk in this country has changed over the past couple of decades. Lose your job for year, go through a divorce, a major medical expense, or any two major events and you can easily join the rand of the forever poor.