The poor get richer (ethic, drugs, stats, companies)
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Yet their schools are still underfunded, they lack healthcare, have higher percentages of debt, have higher dropout rates in secondary and post secondary levels, and live in the most crime ridden communities. The poor have it soooo good.
Usually the schools in poor neighborhoods are funded better than those in middle class neighborhoods. It costs more supposedly to educate the children of the poor because their parents fail to provide much education at home. The higher drop out rates are a choice the poor make. Same with criminal lifestyles. There is no reason that poor have to commit more crimes but they do.
Usually the schools in poor neighborhoods are funded better than those in middle class neighborhoods. It costs more supposedly to educate the children of the poor because their parents fail to provide much education at home. The higher drop out rates are a choice the poor make. Same with criminal lifestyles. There is no reason that poor have to commit more crimes but they do.
I wish the schools in my poor neighborhood got half of the funding as the ones in the middle class neighborhoods get.
Usually the schools in poor neighborhoods are funded better than those in middle class neighborhoods. It costs more supposedly to educate the children of the poor because their parents fail to provide much education at home. The higher drop out rates are a choice the poor make. Same with criminal lifestyles. There is no reason that poor have to commit more crimes but they do.
That's an unconvincing excuse for the increasing disparity in income. Technological advances and purchasing patterns are irrelevant to the fact that purchasing power has been stagnant for the middle-class.
Usually the schools in poor neighborhoods are funded better than those in middle class neighborhoods. It costs more supposedly to educate the children of the poor because their parents fail to provide much education at home. The higher drop out rates are a choice the poor make. Same with criminal lifestyles. There is no reason that poor have to commit more crimes but they do.
No they aren't better funded. The drop out rates aren't simply a matter of choice, but also that of circumstance (esp. in college where there is a severe lack of funding for students.) Typically, higher rates of poverty, higher rates of unemployment, and low education contribute to crime.
You can cling on to the belief that being poor is better, but reality has a nasty way of providing the truth.
Yes, while the poor starve and die of simple diseases that the rich take for granted, they should all thank St Reagan for their microwaves, washer and dryers and televisions...very cool things that make life worth living if you are poor, right?
Seriously, there apparently arent many poor people here.
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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Originally Posted by malamute
We sure do treat our poor very well in this country. I don't think you could find a poor kid without a playstation or nintendo player with all the latest games. Plus they have unlimited food to eat. There's really no motivation to work for a living when you already have it all. It's the middle class that's being squeezed, not the poor and not the rich.
I don't know many poor people with the "latest" systems and games. They may have earlier versions of Playstation or Nintendo but not the new $300 systems and $50 games. I know a "poor" family and those kids have one of the old games that you plug cartridges into the top of. They also do not have a flat screen TV or much of anything that would be "new".
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