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Marriage is the answer to poverty

By Paul Bedard
Published September 10, 2012 4:00am ET
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Marriage is the answer to poverty
The Obama administration’s focus on fighting poverty through anti-drug and safe sex messages is missing the key ingredient to what makes people poor: broken marriages. In a stunning new report from the Heritage Foundation, failed marriages are to blame in the overwhelming number of poverty cases, more than drugs or teen sex. Heritage told Secrets, […]

The Obama administration’s focus on fighting poverty through anti-drug and safe sex messages is missing the key ingredient to what makes people poor: broken marriages.

In a stunning new report from the Heritage Foundation, failed marriages are to blame in the overwhelming number of poverty cases, more than drugs or teen sex.

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