10 Poverty Myths, Busted

[liberal N proud]

1. Absent dads are the problem. Sixty percent of low-income dads see at least one of their children daily.

2. Single moms are the problem. Only 9 percent of low-income, urban moms have been single throughout their child's first five years.

3. Handouts are bankrupting us. In 2012, total welfare funding was 0.47 percent of the federal budget.

Read the Rest:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/10-poverty-myths-busted

[Kalidurga]

1. If only there were some way to get people to understand this

But, they will continue to believe the far right wing shill machines and that welfare spending on families is out of control. They lump spending on the elderly end of life care right in with spending on families with young children. I am not against spending on the elderly in the slightest, but that spending could be cut drastically by universal health care, just sayin.

[liberal N proud]

2. Yep that and belive that all welfare recipiants need drug testing.

Meanwhile the banks and defense industry run away with billions and billions.

[Kalidurga]

3. Poor people use drugs far less than rich people

it's very hard to afford booze on poverty wages. Other drugs are even more problematic if you don't know a dealer or know the person you know is a dealer you are sol, unless you want to take chances with an unknown entity. Very few people with young children want to take that risk. Of course the numbers are slanted toward poor and minorities being jailed for drugs more frequently since they get stopped and frisked way more often and they aren't likely to have the connections that will allow them to buy drugs risk free. So, basically stats are useless in trying to determine which social group uses drugs the most.