The Moderate Liberal

Ever since I was a kid, I heard talk about the cycle of poverty. If only they would work harder, stop looking for a handout, then the poor could obtain the middle class.  It seems so simple and easy to be middle class, especially when you are middle class yourself; all you have to do to pick yourself up is look for a job, then work hard at it.

Yet, millions remain in poverty. Breaking the cycle of poverty, in practice at least, has never been quite so simple as the conservative dogma that blames the poor.

Now, researchers have determined what the poor have known all along; that the very situation of poverty places children at a much greater disadvantage than previously thought.  Are you ok with this?