Japan's Growing Poverty Defies Glib Explanations

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 10 months ago

There are lots of preconceptions about poverty. On the right, a common idea is that poor people mainly have their own behavior to blame -- that if they worked more, committed less crime, had fewer out-of-wedlock births and did fewer drugs, the poverty rate would plummet.

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