No one in politics or either side wants to discuss the real issues facing minorities, I see it everyday and have dealt with it for nearly two decades. Welfare perpetuates poverty by paying out just enough to keep them alive but not enough to ever live just above the bare necessities. There is no incentive to work because most who are on welfare are unskilled and most unskilled jobs barely pay above what they qualify for on welfare. Therefore, it not encourages but facilitates generational welfare. Single parents and grandparents cannot and do not adequately replace what biological parents should be providing. Schools in high poverty areas generally suffer from very frequent discipline issues which scares off most successful educators because they don't want to fool with students who continually disrupt the classroom with little to no consequences. Therefore, most high poverty schools are filled with inexperienced or ineffective teachers that no other school chooses to hire. Are there talented teachers who have a calling to work in high poverty areas? Absolutely, but they are few and far between. Teachers who do find success in those schools are hired away or they transfer out for better work environments. All of this leads to poor schools and uneducated generations of students because they are simply passed on because the school system doesn't have the resources or enough teachers to enforce the type of structure those schools need or the willpower to suspend said students en masse. We are left with large concentrations of mostly urban areas that are underemployed, unparented, and uneducated or unskilled. That leaves the welfare system as the only perceived "solution". Who is responsible? We are as in the voters who continually elect and re-elect politicians who encourage and facilitate the notion that it's always someone else's fault and more free stuff is the solution.
