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Propane Jane ?@docrocktex26 3h3 hours agoJeb Bush Proposes More Marriage To Fix Baltimore http://thkpr.gs/3655538 via @thinkprogress ::eye roll::
Jeb Bush, the former Republican governor of Florida who is expected to run for president, has weighed in on the upheaval in Baltimore and the economic condition of American cities generally. We have spent trillions of dollars in the War on Poverty, and poverty not only persists, it is as intractable as ever, he writes. This represents a broken promise. And it feeds the anger of Baltimore.
Bush is right that poverty hasnt been eradicated and that it is particularly pronounced in Baltimore, a city where the rate is 24 percent. But the money spent on the programs that were part of the War on Poverty have significantly lowered the poverty rate, and it would be much worse without them. The poverty rate has dropped from 19 percent in 1964, when President Lyndon Johnson first declared his effort to fight poverty, to 14.5 percent today...
Still, more can clearly be done to help the countrys poor, both in cities like Baltimore and elsewhere. Bushs prescription for reducing the rate further, however, begins with a call for poor people to get married. If our government leaders want to attack poverty, they should first acknowledge that an effective anti-poverty program is a strong family, led by two parents, he writes. The evidence on this is incontrovertible.
Certainly the children of married couples on the whole experience a lower poverty rate than those of cohabiting or single parents. But more than 9.3 million married people still live in poverty. Meanwhile, researchers have found that its not marriage per se that helps the children of married couples or even parenting necessarily, but rather differences in income, given that married couples tend to be better off. Lower incomes for unmarried parents explains about a third of the differences for their outcomes as compared to those of married parents. And single parents lower incomes are the result of deliberate policy choices.
Meanwhile, pushing low-income people to wed isnt likely to do much. More than two-thirds of single mothers who marry end up divorced later on, which actually leaves them worse off financially than just staying single. Even if it did help, the government has a terrible track record of successfully prodding them into it. It has spent millions on marriage promotion programs that have had no impact on whether the couples get married or even stay together and no impact on the divorce rate, while one even made couples less likely to remain together.
read more: thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/05/06/3655538/jeb-bush-baltimore-poverty/
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Jeb pushes marriage as 'effective anti-poverty program' for uprising in Baltimore and other cities (Original Post)
bigtree
May 2015
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notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)1. Economic opportunity is THE key to any anti poverty program ASSHOLE
I don't care how many parents you have in a house, if they don't have decent paying jobs they will be poor. I'll try to explain it to you the way your brother might if he were a better human being.
When people have no money to live, they become desperate to put food on their families. When people can't put food on their families, often times, they resort to committing crimes such as drug dealing or robbery to do it. Do you get it now?
elleng
(130,731 posts)2. OH ffs!
Faux pas
(14,644 posts)3. Oh so his
way if F ya all if your not married? Yeah, that'll fly.
olddots
(10,237 posts)4. remember Jeb is supposed to be the smart Bush
Oy .
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)5. Um, excuse me, Jebbie, Baltimore's best mom is single
Toya Graham, who recognized her son on TV and pulled him out of the riots.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)6. What is accomplished when two people who can't find work
because there are NO FUCKING JOBS get married? Obviously, not one goddamn thing.
He's as dumb as his brother and definitely not the "smart one."