It's easy to find jobs some places. I suppose inner cities probably have most unskilled jobs filled.

I wonder if criminal records plays into things? Will McDonalds hire you after you get busted for running a meth lab?

And I still think baby mamas are a big, if not the biggest, part of it. You get extra dependents and costs and you lose a worker taking care of them. If you have a couple kids and a wife at home even someone earning $10 an hour won't clear minimum wage. And again most of the time the father isn't home.

Alright lets see if I can Google something up quick

Apparently about 20% of single mothers are below the poverty line
http://www.cbpp.org/8-16-01wel-pr.htm

And also In 2006 the poverty rate for minors in the United States was 21.9% - highest child poverty rate in the developed world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty..._United_States

I'm pretty sure those two things are pretty well correlated. Again I'm guessing the reason why our poverty rate is so high is because of baby mamas.

The trick with this of course is that you can't simply wave them off as lazy, as even when working many wouldn't be able to clear the poverty threshold.

Now I don't think the answer to the problem is throwing piles of government money at these baby mamas. But ignoring the issue isn't going to help either. And you ARE going to be paying for them until hospital emergency rooms can just toss people out of the stretcher into a dumpster. So even for the coldest Libertarian it makes sense to address the issue.