Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:11:06 PM
The authors of a new study are calling for reform after concluding that poverty hurts the poor.
“Our studies show that the poor are less likely to obtain higher educational degrees, less likely to own their own homes, less likely to live in expensive neighborhoods, less likely to drive nice and new cars, and less likely to retire early,” said Garry Smith of Socialists United for Conscience and Kindness. “They are also less likely to have high paying jobs, less likely to take expensive vacations, and less likely to have large bank accounts.”
The study found that there are hundreds of millions of Americans who have less money than someone else.
Smith is currently working on a study to determine why sick and injured people tend to use hospitals more than healthy and fit people, and will subsequently conduct a study to determine why people in prison tend to be criminals.