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To: neolib who wrote (230877)	9/3/2013 1:00:59 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542149

Given this post, I think where we disagree is the degree to which welfare dependency and single parent families are large scale causes of poverty. I simply disagree with the position that it is either "the" major factor or even one of several major factors. There can be little doubt it occurs but it's neither the large scale source of the problem nor impervious to providing better jobs and education for the poor. This latter is, in my view, the direction policy should take. An effective full employment policy coupled with a commitment to providing the urban and rural poor with the same quality of public education as currently provided in the suburbs, would do the trick. My votes go to politicians who favor that. Not politicians who insist that a "culture of poverty" causes poverty and cutting aid to the poor is in the interests of the poor.