January 10, 2014

Government, Journalists Refuse to Recognize Cause of Poverty


[From article]
The breakdown of marriage, in particular, drives impoverishment. The poverty rate is about six times higher for single-parent families than two-parent families. About 70 percent of all poor families with children are single-parent families. According to Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation, if single mothers were to marry the fathers of the children, about two-thirds of them would no longer be poor, in a stupendously effective anti-poverty program.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0114/lowry010314.php3#.Uswf6d00i6Y

Jewish World Review
Jan. 3, 2014/ 2 Shevat, 5774
The great equalizers
By Rich Lowry

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