Hello, Dianavan, how are you ? Please allow me to make a few points if I may...1) You said alot but never gave any valid reasons for poverty in the USAj, 2) Why not show some manners to me and give me a quick briefing then, or I guess I could read 500 posts, before jumping down my throat for having an opinion, 3) To quote you, 'What you fail to understand is that it is children who learn this and they learn it because it is all around them. The cycle will not be broken unless meaningful programs are put in place to give them hope and encouragement.' How about a program to get their parents a job?, that's a start, and it won't burden the already over-taxed American people. Nothing gives a child more hope and encouragement than parents who WORK. 4) Who said post-secondary education was free, not I, I said everyone has access to education (you indicated they didn't). And if their parents pay, they aren't poor, are they? 6) You didn't welcome me ?!?!?   That hurts.:(