Janie,

Yeah, it is complex but the one thing that you have pointed out and both of us has seen is the strong correlation between kids who grow up in poverty and that same group who grow up to be poor adults...

There isn't a lot of upward mobility in the US...

What is most disturbing is that it really doesn't have to be like this... The country has the resources but not the courage to redistribute those resources...

Sadder yet, much of the wealth that the US enjoys was created by the very folks who share the least in the product (wealth) such as alot of black folk, in particular, who were responsible for the building of much of the country's infastructure in the 19th century of which the economis engine runs... But these folks didn't share in the spils...

Opps... Gotta go to work...

Later

Beaubear