If You Pay People To Be Poor, You'll Never Run Out Of Poor People.

This turned up today, I thought this was informative:

"Poverty is not simply an absence of money. Rather, it is bound up with a whole set of other circumstances: lack of qualifications, demoralisation, family break-up, substance abuse, fatherlessness. It follows that you do not end poverty by giving money to the poor: a theory that British welfarism has amply demonstrated over 60 years. Only when you tackle poverty holistically will you facilitate meaningful improvement."

It's just a fact of life that people who are born to rich and/or well-adjusted, fit parents will typically themselves become rich and/or well-adjusted, a common example of the Nurture factor. At my doctors office I volunteer at, I asked a lot of the clients how many of them were abused/molested/mistreated, and wouldn't you know it, 9/10 admitted that there had been problems from a very young age. Coincidence? I dont think so.