But not a exactly a career choice, mg, which for a majority of inner city black kids is all that they realisticlly have to lok forward to... These kids don't have ***your*** survival skills... Nor do they have ***your*** experience background... Throw in that the ***system*** isn't designed to accept upward mobility the ***realities*** on the streets in out urban centers is a million miles form ***your reality***

I know you mean well but you aren't going to ***preach*** a million kids outta poverty unless the sytem is prepared to accept them, which it isn't...

Now for a couple new thoughts...

I believe that most of us agree that it is going to take programs and resources to tackle poverty.... Good advice, like mg's, isn't going to get the job done... Is it neeeded??? Well, yeah, but won't get the job done...

The rich folks have devised new ways to corral our nation's wealth... One way that has become very popular since 2003 is off-shore account which have taken $100B outta the US Treasury a year... That would go along way in itself to fund day care programs, job tarining, etc...

Another is usary lending practices where they invest in "pay-day loans" that bilk the poor outta up to 336% interest on short term loans....

If these two loopholes for the rich were closed buy Congress we'd have a lot more dough to fund programs and the poor would have alot more of their own money...

And this without even disussing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy...

Bobert