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Originally Posted by Raharu Haruha
Then why is there poverty? .... I'm not talking about the single mothers.
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You answered your own question really. The single largest demographic in poverty is the single mother and her kids. So when you talk poverty in the US, that should be the first thing you're talking about.
The next biggest demographic seems to be families where people are working, they just doesn't make enough for the number of children and/or older relatives on hand.
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I'm saying that if a single person can work a minimum wage job and be above poverty, then why are there single healthy people below the poverty line? Someone claimed that it was because Asia was taking the jobs - that clashes with your argument. The way to combate Asia is obvious.
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I think pretty much everyone here agrees that a healthy person with no children or other dependents and no serious drug problem or particularily bad criminal record can get over the poverty line if they want to.
Yes?
It's just that they make up quite the minority of people in poverty.
The talk about sending jobs to Asia isn't about the quantity of jobs, it's about the quality and pay of availible jobs. (And it seems like what's actually happened is we've switched from a manufacturing to a service economy)
At any rate the point is that lowering the minimum wage can only possibly help the poor when there are not already crap jobs for them to take. But there seem to be plenty of crap jobs around at least so long as you're willing to relocate or take a bus to work at this point in time, therefore lowing wages just means lower wages.