Obama's "fair share," "fair shot" campaign tour should begin with parents. But it can't. There is just no fairness, sameness or equality there. And Uncle Sam is not a good step-dad. If a kid has married parents, even if they are poor, his chances of growing up in poverty is reduced more than 50 years of the war on poverty can do. The percentage of black married families that are poor is 7%; unmarried families 35.6%. For white families the figure is 3.2% and 22%. The leftist think tanks are starting to roll out stats that covers this huge pimple on the president's nose, but most of those researchers are married and send their kids to private schools and pull down those huge Washington D.C. salaries (highest in nation in a city with a high poverty rate).
If the president wants to give a single mom with 3 kids a "fair shot," let him go into public housing in DC and tap a gal to walk his dog, or babysit the daughters, or wait tables at an international luncheon, or chauffer his car, or join Michelle’s staff to do her hair and nails. How hard would that be? Well, she’d have to give up SNAP, housing assistance, Medicaid, TANF, and any of the other 80 means tested programs. So she could decide even that offer couldn’t match what she has.
http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/pdf/Marriage-Poverty-United-States.pdf
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