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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (230918)	9/3/2013 10:45:51 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542149

I gather you want to read studies on poverty. Bless you. I've tried to indicate where some studies are. And if you offered studies, I would be happy to tell you whether they seem to be done by reputable social scientists or not, in so far as I might know. I'm not going to do your homework for you but would be happy to provide assistance should you decide to do so. You ask me to state what I think should be done. I've stated it in innumerable posts, sufficiently to bore everyone else. The difference between us is that you think the lack of good research is the problem. I think making jobs available to the poor and improving educational opportunities is the answer. And I've offered criteria for measuring the amount of effort appropriate--a full employment policy and schools for the poor which match the quality of schools we now provide for suburban kids--well, at least in New Jersey. And I've stated my own understanding that neither of these is going to happen because of the present political climate. And I'm deeply convinced that studies won't improve that climate. Only better representation of folk who care. In short, trash the present campaign finance structure so that big money can't buy politicians quite so easily. Can't say it much more clearly than that.