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To: neolib who wrote (230872)	9/3/2013 12:52:16 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542154

The math in this post is fine; the more income a family has, the better. And one way to get that is to have more breadwinners, assuming they all provide roughly the same level of income. There are clearly other ways, such as better jobs and better education. I assume you wouldn't want to argue that the level and distribution of jobs has less to do with poverty than the number of single parent families. Nor, I would guess, would you argue that the weak education programs provided to the poor have less to do with poverty than the number of single parent families. I don't assume you want to argue, thus, that single parenting is "the" most important factor determining poverty. If that's the case and you are arguing that it's one among many, then you're not disagreeing with me. Perhaps only your picture of my argument. The real causal analysis problem is to weight the factors in such a way that policy can address them. And then design programs that actually provide assistance. Among the listed factors, the least likely, in my view, is information about single parenting. Yet that's the policy point of the Heritage Foundation study which started this conversation. And I gather you are not advancing an argument for that. So, given what you typed thus far, what sorts of policy proposals directed at poverty would you support? My own emphasis is twofold--better jobs and better education. I gather BOTW supports more studies before any action. Is that your position?