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Three simple rules for the poor to follow in order to get into the middle class
Posted on 7/6/18 at 10:50 am
Posted on 7/6/18 at 10:50 am
These are according to the Brookings Institute - a leftist organization.
1. Don’t have kids out of wedlock
2. Graduate High School
3. Get & keep a job
Link to findings
The potential mobility our economy offers every race is wonderful. The best.
1. Don’t have kids out of wedlock
2. Graduate High School
3. Get & keep a job
quote:
Our research shows that of American adults who followed these three simple rules, only about 2?percent are in poverty and nearly 75?percent have joined the middle class (defined as earning around $55,000 or more per year). There are surely influences other than these principles at play, but following them guides a young adult away from poverty and toward the middle class.
Link to findings
The potential mobility our economy offers every race is wonderful. The best.
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Posted on 7/6/18 at 10:53 am to Eli Goldfinger
quote:If the poor really wants to get ahead, don't have any kids at all.
Don’t have kids out of wedlock
Posted on 7/6/18 at 10:53 am to Eli Goldfinger
quote:
1. Don’t have kids out of wedlock 2. Graduate High School 3. Get & keep a job
Seems to be way too much trouble when you can get $65,000 worth of free benefits from the government just for being a fricking vagrant.
Posted on 7/6/18 at 10:57 am to Eli Goldfinger
4. avoid criminals or friends prone to risky, criminal behavior
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:09 pm to Eli Goldfinger
quote:
nearly 75?percent have joined the middle class (defined as earning around $55,000 or more per year).
Uhhhh
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:12 pm to Eli Goldfinger
quote:
3. Get & keep a job
Just show up every day on time and you are likely to meet the second prong of this.
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:13 pm to bmy
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bmy
quote:
Uhhhh
tell us
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:14 pm to sec13rowBBseat28
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If the poor really wants to get ahead, don't have any kids at all.
But da gubment give you mo money fo each kid
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:14 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Below 55k for an individual is lower class? That's a crazy number.
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:16 pm to Eli Goldfinger
If you work full time at the minimum wage, you are making enough money to be ABOVE the poverty line.
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:16 pm to bmy
quote:
for an individual
Didn't look like it specified that.
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:20 pm to Eli Goldfinger
So did Shapiro rob that from them? Or vice versus?
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:25 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Boortz had a similar one he used to tout, from an older study.
I think it was-
Don’t have kids out of wedlock
Don’t get arrested
Graduate High School
The study showed those three combined factors resulted in something like a 1% poverty rate.
I think it was-
Don’t have kids out of wedlock
Don’t get arrested
Graduate High School
The study showed those three combined factors resulted in something like a 1% poverty rate.
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:27 pm to PsychTiger
quote:They give you just enough to keep you alive and on the plantation.
But da gubment give you mo money fo each kid
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:27 pm to Eli Goldfinger
I'd substitute avoid a criminal record as number 3.
You do those three you can get a job and keep it.
You do those three you can get a job and keep it.
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:28 pm to bmy
Yea 55k is crazy. I thought it was more like 40k for an individual to count as middle class. 55k seems low for a family though.
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:29 pm to Eli Goldfinger
It really is that simple.
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:33 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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If you work full time at the minimum wage, you are making enough money to be ABOVE the poverty line.
Barely
Poverty level 2018 is $12,140 a full time minimum wage earner earns $15080 a year. ASSUMING they work all 2080 hours, which we all know doesn't happen, not on a year by year basis for most of these workers
Plus that is really irrelevant anyway since all of our welfare programs allow a person to earn 140% of the poverty maximum and still collect some welfare. So, that's $16.996 a year for a single person OR just shy of a dollar an hour more than the federal minimum wage, again assuming a person works 2080 hours a year without missing any time.
A single person should be able to earn 200% of the poverty maximum if they are working a minimum wage job full time, that is just a basic bit of dignity that our country should mandate to those who employ people.
Now, those who stupidly have kids they can't afford, that's a different matter altogether.
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:35 pm to TbirdSpur2010
The fact that this has to be explained shows how fricked we are as a society and that the DOE's effort to dumb down our society worked better than they could have dreamed.
Posted on 7/6/18 at 12:42 pm to Eli Goldfinger
This started with Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation about 20 years ago. His study found that only 2% of people classified as being below the poverty line passed these 3 tests:
a. graduate HS
b. no kids until marriage
c. don't use illegal drugs
Since these are EXTREMELY easy goals to attain I came to the conclusion many years ago that people who are poor in America have made a decision to be poor.
a. graduate HS
b. no kids until marriage
c. don't use illegal drugs
Since these are EXTREMELY easy goals to attain I came to the conclusion many years ago that people who are poor in America have made a decision to be poor.
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