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Being paid to keep children illiterate

hypocritexposer

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THIS is what poverty sometimes looks like in America: parents here in Appalachian hill country pulling their children out of literacy classes. Moms and dads fear that if kids learn to read, they are less likely to qualify for a monthly check for having an intellectual disability.

Many people in hillside mobile homes here are poor and desperate, and a $698 monthly check per child from the Supplemental Security Income program goes a long way — and those checks continue until the child turns 18.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/opinion/sunday/kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html?_r=0

This is painful for a liberal to admit, but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle people in a soul-crushing dependency. Our poverty programs do rescue many people, but other times they backfire.
 

hypocritexposer

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the Appalachian Hills has quite the history, and not just for the Hatfields and McCoys.

Land Grabs by the federal government and the New Deal. Here's a good article...excerpt





http://www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/colloqpapers/08gregg.pdf
 

George

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Mike said:
I know an area with people like that today.

My in-laws fit this - - - a sorry bunch!!! And my younger brother is now with them and has brought his youngest son - - - It's amazing how low a person can sink with pot on the brain!
 

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