EXPRESS READING ERRADICATE POVERTY

EXPRESS READING

ERRADICATE POVERTY

Eliminating poverty is largely a matter of helping children

born into poverty to rise out of it. Once families escape

from poverty they do not fall back into it. Middle-class

children rarely end up poor. The primary reason poor children

do not escape from poverty is that they do not acquire basic

mental skills. They cannot read, write, calculate or articulate.

Lacking these skills, they cannot get or keep a well-paid job.

The best mechanism for breaking this vicious circle is to

provide the poor with better educational opportunities.

Since children born into poor homes do not acquire the

skills they need from their parents, they must be taught

these skills in school.