Escaping poverty is not as simple and easy as it seems to some. Often the deck is stacked against the poor in many ways that are not so obvious.(emphasis mine)
Being responsible, intelligent, willing to work hard and having good character is not always enough to lift you out of poverty.
These are very true words of wisdom, Jeff. I won't pretend to know all the many ways that poverty--which unfortunately is intimately intertwined with racism in many cases--keep people down, but I'm smart enough to know that poverty is complicated.
It's unusual to have so much personal disclosure here on ETS, but I think it reflects both a sense of trust that many of us feel with other members we've known for a while now, and also a reflection of the severity of the times we are living in and how polarizing that hard times can be. Heaven help us all.
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