The economy

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Poverty is, in the vast majority of cases, a result of the choices a person makes, and if someone stays off drugs, completes their education, and doesn't have kids out of wedlock, the chances are better than 90% that they will not live in poverty.

But in a country whose economic politics are pretty far to the right, a poor person will not afford to even begin educating himnself. And as it is in the USA today, a poor person will go to public school instead of private school and thus initially have a lesser chance of succeeding in life then the child of a rich person who pays for better education for his offspring.