Tag: Culture of Poverty
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‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback
New York Times: ‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a Comeback For more than 40 years, social scientists investigating the causes of poverty have tended to treat cultural explanations like Lord Voldemort: That Which Must Not Be Named. The reticence was a legacy of the ugly battles that erupted after Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then an assistant labor…
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Culture of poverty, culture of success
Crunchy Con (Rob Dreher): Culture of poverty, culture of success Writing in The New Republic, Brink Lindsey shows why personal and familial culture is the greatest determinant of whether or not someone gets out of poverty. He surveys studies showing that a family's income is a peripheral contributor to the success of their children —…