"Excellent trial lawyers are scarce; burger flippers are not. ... True, people are poor in America because they cannot find good jobs. But that is the symptom, not the illness. The underlying problem is a lack of skills, or human capital. The poverty rate for high school dropouts in America is 12 times the poverty rate for college graduates."(Wheelan 129)
This stuck out to me because it shows that the reason that poverty is so high is that there is a lack in education. Later on the page Wheelan talks about the poverty rate in India and compares it to the high illiteracy rate. The reason why people can not get jobs is because people are not educated and trained to be out in the real world. This is more of a problem when people are stuck in impoverished areas, without an education system. With little to no help with a chance to break the cycle, there will be no chance to decrease poverty throughout the world. Another problem with stigma is that if a child of an impoverished family realizes their tough "predetermined" predicaments, they might decide that there is no way out of it. Follow the leader in a horrifying example caused by human capital.
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