The Success Sequence Is About Cultural Beefs, Not Poverty
Marriage and high school diplomas are a distraction. To end poverty, we simply have to structure our economy to ensure nobody falls below the poverty line.
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The Success Sequence is back!
The ad hoc antipoverty process first endorsed by Isabell Sawhill and Ron Haskins at the Brookings Institute has been picked up by Brad Wilcox and Wendy Wang at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). George Will also recently mailed in a column on the topic by doing a rewrite of the AEI product.
I’ve written before about some of the problems with this particular framework, but in light of this new push, it is worth rehashing them here.
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