The long-term fix is education, not hand-outs. We need to teach poor people and their parents that our youth is going to attend school, not drop out, stop having babies at a point in their lives that it will de-rail them, stay away from drugs and drinking, etc... We can't just give things to people, we've got to educate them so they are motivated to making the choices to lift themselves out of poverty.
Poor people keep making choices that guarentee their future of being poor. If we can educate our youth about how their decisions are going to have long lasting consequences, then maybe they won't make those decisions.
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