Oct 24, 2016 ... “According to the Brookings Institution, there's a 97 percent chance that you'll get  out of poverty if you wait until you're married to have children, if you graduate  high school, and if you have a job of any type,” Lankford says. “These are not  government solutions, but government can get in the way of these ...
Feb 29, 2016 ... “Kids who spend more than half of their childhood in poverty have a high-school  graduation rate of 68 percent,” said Abigail Langston, a senior associate at  PolicyLink, and a public fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies. “ You see how these things compound over time. There is a link between ...
Mar 21, 1997 ... I guess I should have expected that this comment would generate letters along  the lines of, "Well, if you lose your comfortable position as an American professor  you can always find another job--as long as you are 12 years old and willing to  work for 40 cents an hour." Such moral outrage is common among ...
Jan 27, 2012 ... Waiting to get married until after 21 and do not have children till after being  married. 3. Having a full-time job. If you do all those three things, your chance of  falling into poverty is just 2 percent. Meanwhile, you'll have a 74 percent chance  of being in the middle class. Applies to everyone. These rules apply to ...
Jul 21, 2016 ... So if you want to hear the corporate spin, the carefully-crafted lies, and the media  myths the Democrats are holding their convention next week. Go there. But here,  at our convention, there will be no lies. We will honor the American people with  the truth, and nothing else. [Fact checkers might beg to differ.
If you have a job in this country, (there's a) 97 percent chance that you're not going to be in poverty.