“and the racial gaps are about the same.”
BONUS Derb:
Most poverty in the U.S.A. today is not the result of social or institutional barriers. It is the result of personal psychological factors: imprudence, low intelligence, lack of drive — or, if you prefer the terminology of a franker age: folly, stupidity, and sloth.
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As I keep telling you:
the “poor” are the rich Jesus warned you about.