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There's no denying the correlation. People are who poor are also less likely to have a college degree. People who are poor are less likely to have parents who have a college degree. There is a negative correlation between poverty and education.

Without an education it's hard to break out of poverty. Social mobility in our society depends on skills and credentials that are usually obtained through higher education.

So why don't poor people simply go to college and get better jobs so that they can stop being poor?

If you've never lived with, in, near, or around poverty that question sounds incredibly rhetorical. It's not rhetorical. And there are obvious answers – obvious to anyone who's looked poverty in America in the face…

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