So now everyone has to marry just to escape poverty. Perhaps that's simply not a sacrifice they're willing to make, and for you to instruct others how to live...
Cause full time minimum wage, which is about all high school can guarantee, is $15392/year. That's barely above the poverty level. If you ask me, reform is most needed for the working poor. People aren't going to put up with this forever, not while their corporate barons are exploiting them more and more - about 14 fold since 1960s (source: EPI)
Marriage (or an analog by another name if you prefer), meaning a male and female adult in the home means two incomes, more flexibility, less negative impacts to children, and a better life. Save me the red herrings, I am speaking generally. A single parent household (over 70% in many demos), lack of even basic education (LA county has a 30% HS graduation rate) , and the inability to retain a job do not lead to success. Lets stop pretending and being PC-this is too important to ignore.
Im not instructing anybody-Im recognizing the facts of life and stating this isn't an insurmountable goal.
-People who can't speak english here are going to have an exceedingly difficult time succeeding. Theres a reason first generation immigrants who assimilate do so well here in the US, in fact even better than their children who grow up in the US.
Most people who work and fall under the poverty level DONT WORK FULL TIME HOURS.
Two income earners trump one.
Education and HS graduation trump being a drop out.
Working and being just above the poverty level is preferable to being under the poverty level, and getting just enough handouts to keep one on the democrat vote plantation.
People need to obtain the skills and education needed to get others to pay them money-money that they will be worth. Smoking weed and playing xbox is no substitute.
There is no better delivery vehicle from poverty than capitalism. Your marxist class struggle BS has demonstrably failed, time and time again-all over the world, and in various cultures, for the last century.
Seeking out the behaviors that lead to success and emulating them is smart-and certainly preferable to defending mediocrity and bitterly lamenting others-success isnt down that road.
If people aren't willing to acknowledge the circumstances REQUIRED to be successful, and instead expect a lifetime of handouts-they have already failed. We used to know this, in fact it was obvious. Only the Pax Americana could give us such entitled and ignorant assumptions. These facts-are stubborn-but true nevertheless.