EDCI 3224 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: United States House Committee On The Budget, The Wrong People
15 Aug 2019
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House budget committee report stated the single most important determinant of poverty is family structure closely followed by a disinclination to work. Sponsor of the report strongly believes that people are lazy and don"t take responsibility for their children and don"t want to look for jobs, that live off of the government help. Other claim that poverty is perpetuated by defective cultural values, culture of poverty. Most poverty research focuses on single mothers in poor neighborhoods and delinquent sons which is why the results conclude the poverty there, the research needs to be opened more widely. White lower classes were said to be infected by the tangle of pathology since they were too leaving their families and marriages. Bad behavior from the top in 2008 bad behavior a recession began and it was not by the poor.
