Tom3k said:
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Actually the lives are pretty lucrative. Recent studies have shown that most poor HOUSEHOLDS get benefits and cash worth about $44k a year which means they would actually have to earn over $50k a year to have that money after taxes.
The biggest driver right now of income inequity is marriage and education. There is no reason to discourage either of those.
Women more than ever are going to college. They make up the majority of students and the majority of degrees awarded. She isn't going to marry beneath her or take a deadbeat for a husband.
So you end up with a two earner household that is considered a household because it is married.
On the flip side you have women who have children early or who do poorly in terms of education. They do accept deadbeats in terms of spouses. They don't marry them and thus they are not a HOUSEHOLD but they do shack up and create kids with them.
What they marry isn't a man, but the government. They have the government provide what they or the man cannot.
80% of household poverty is removed the second these "households" decide to marry and their incomes are legally combined instead of considered separate.
That won't happen though because the combined income won't qualify for the benefits.
Look into studies on what poor households SPEND versus what they EARN. They don't earn much but they spend plenty. This is about legal definitions of households.
