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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
[Now, you say that it's a lofty and ideal goal to seek equal opportunities. To a certain extent I don't disagree. You're right in that it will never be the case. However, it's silly to not minimalize the problem and do what we can to fix it. In 1969, less than 3% of children lived in poverty. In 1993, around 20% of children lived in poverty. In 2003, it was about 17%. Even more interestingly, the percentage of black children living in poverty in 2003 was 34% in contrast with about 10% of white children living in poverty. You're not going to tell me the rise was unavoidable and is unfixable - at the very least across racial lines.
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Raising the minimum wage by a buck isn't going to do diddly to help poverty. If you really want to fight poverty you should advocate for a minimum wage of, what was is, $13.75/hr. With all this talk about poverty this and poverty that in the midst of a minimum wage arguement, I haven't seen one of you libs argue to increase the minimum wage to such an extent. You are either for these poor people or against them, right? So why do you only want their minimum wage to be increased to $7 and not $14? Someone answer me pLeAsE!!!