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Message: <blockquote data-quote="59 Dano" data-source="post: 943819" data-attributes="member: 23516">The market won't, and doesn't, support substandard wages.  But since you brought it up....More often than not, long-term poverty is a behavioral issue.  The identified traits of the long-term poor tend to reinforce that.  A job doesn't create poverty; a job doesn't pay poverty wages.  A married woman with at least a high school education and no kids earning the same pay at WalMart as a single dropout mom with 2 kids is probably living a much easier life.  The problem isn't with the rate of pay.  I see no reason to pay someone $20/hour to stock shelves.  If you're benevolent and just wanna do it, go for it, but otherwise, no.  That's insane.</blockquote>