Aug 14, 2016 ... The first Times poll of American attitudes toward poverty, in 1985, broke ground  by surveying enough ..... When they went to school, lunch was biscuits and jelly  in a paper sack. ... The poor are women: More than 60% of all impoverished  adults are women. ... Most of the poor stay in poverty only a few years.
Jan 4, 2012 ... Similarly, 65 percent born in the bottom fifth stay in the bottom two-fifths. ... That is  different from asking whether they have more money. ... Poor Americans are also  more likely than foreign peers to grow up with single mothers. ... mobile society  would mean complete insecurity: anyone could tumble any time.
Notes: Tabulations are weighted and include children born between 1968 and  1989. ... percent less likely to complete college than those who are poor but not ...  poor children whose parents have a high school education or more than a high ...  Adult achievement is related to childhood poverty and the length of time they live  ...
Not only does behavior matter, it matters more than it used to. ... public policies  are designed to move them in this direction, economic divisions are likely to grow . ... Some are poor primarily because, like Cunningham, they persist in perverse  and .... If you stay in school, work hard, marry, and have a reasonable number of  ...
Mar 8, 2016 ... And homeless women are even more vulnerable. ... How Medicaid forces  families like mine to stay poor ... Since more than half of all Americans have zero  dollars in savings, for someone like me to ... People also believe if you're  homeless, it's due to moral failure or "poor choices" on your part, rather than a ...
If you're born poor, you're more likely to stay poor than any time in American history.