No, Dickey, it's a lack of education & the understanding of their situation & the lack of necessary means to escape it.
I believe that poverty is an institution that serves the very wealthy, the very powerful in government & in the private sector and that witout it the distrubation of knowledge & wealth would be more evenly spread but it would be a cost that those that at present & past had & have & will never part with. So the poor are the grease that the wheels of fortune grind & there they will remain.

Without them the rich & powerful would not live so well!

Barry