> Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.

But not having 3 kids when you cannot afford having them might be. That is the issue nobody likes to address. For driving a car you have to have driving license, for owning a gun you have to have some kind of permit, to made new human being you can just go ahead. No matter if you can raise it. Would she be better of not having them? Might be, but certainly those kids won't be advancing social ladder, but rather emulating what they see at home: making kids and living on welfare/foodstamps. Key is not giving away tax money from hard working people away, but providing education (also in context that your choices have consequences).