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To: bentway who wrote (204375)	7/6/2021 4:50:09 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 362855

And that is important. Now it just wasn't blacks that had that problem, poor whites did too. From sharecroppers in the post-Civil War South to the company towns in the North, the existing systems milked the poor dry and made it impossible for the poor to accumulate anything. And then the periodic Panics and Depressions would wipe out what middle class there was on a periodic basis. All of it was to the benefit of the monied class. And we learn nothing about that in public school. Which is why I suppose we are in a headlong rush to go back to those conditions. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The best way to keep people from not learning from history is to make sure they aren't taught it.

To: bentway who wrote (204375)	5/29/2022 6:49:50 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 362855

Study Shows 3 Pivotal Life Choices, Not Racism, Keep Non-White People In Poverty A recent study shows that racism is not what is keeping people, specifically non-white Americans, in poverty — it’s personal decisions. Specifically, it’s dropping out of high school, not working full-time, and having kids before marriage. With these three factors present, the non-white poverty rate skyrockets to over 50%. However, graduating high school, getting a full-time job, and having kids after marriage drops the poverty rate down to 4% for blacks and 3% for Hispanics and whites, according to a 2022 study by the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies. The study shows that 95% of black and Hispanic adults aged 32-38 who followed the success sequence are not in poverty. Contrast those numbers to those who had kids before they married and had no diploma or full-time job: 73% of those black people and 54 % of those Hispanics ended up in poverty. [continued ...] thefederalist.com Tom