Evidence That Poor People Aren’t Lazy

Evidence That Poor People Aren’t Lazy

The very people demeaned by the rich as 'lazy' are generally the hardest workers.

Many wealthy white conservative males believe they deserve their good fortunes, and that the poor are taking handouts. But on average little of the money of the wealthiest Americans is spent on productive job-creating ventures. Potential young entrepreneurs, in contrast, are too often mired in debt and deprived of opportunities to prosper.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103115000852

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/10/30/when-the-superrich-die-heres-whats-in-their-wallets/

Based on the evidence, the very people demeaned by the rich as 'lazy' are generally the hardest workers.

Most Safety Net Recipients Are Working 

Almost 63 percent of America's work-eligible poor are working, and 73 percent of public support recipients are members of working families. As noted by Paul Krugman, "only 26 percent of jobless Americans are receiving any kind of unemployment benefit, the lowest level in many decades."
http://www.epi.org/publication/poor-people-work-a-majority-of-poor-people-who-can-work-do/

http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2015/the-high-public-cost-of-low-wages.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/opinion/paul-krugman-those-lazy-jobless.html?_r=0

For Those Who Aren't Working, Living-Wage Opportunities Aren't Available 

Congress has continually thwarted job creation proposals, contributing to a stunning increase in the long-term unemployment rate, from 17.5 percent to 43.7 percent after the recession, and then down to a still-middle-class-crushing 27 percent today.
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/10/12/five-great-american-hypocrisies/

http://www.epi.org/publication/long-term-unemployed-arent-lazy-arent-jobs/

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm

The Middle Class Produces the Entrepreneurs 

Experience has shown that productive new ideas, and the job creation that comes with them, are generated by young middle class people. But as debt and job loss has plagued this part of America over the past 30 years, the number of new startups has dropped dramatically.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/23681-did-reagan-kill-entrepreneurialism

http://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2012/05/pdf/middleclass_growth.pdf

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-entrepreneurs-20140907-story.html#page=1

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2014/05/declining%20business%20dynamism%20litan/declining_business_dynamism_hathaway_litan

Immigrants Bring Even More Entrepreneurship 

According to the Wall Street Journal, immigrants make up 13 percent of the population, but 28 percent of the small business owners. Plus, they boost local economies by starting businesses in developing neighborhoods. http://www.commondreams.org/www.wsj.com/articles/immigrant-entrepreneurs-prosper-on-main-street-1421195826

In the last three years, the number of Hispanic-owned businesses has grown at an annual rate 15 times that of the rate for all companies.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/08b0a4c5f0f1411a949964fb652074f8/get-started-hispanic-business-growth-outstrips-rest-us

Income Experiments Show that the Poor Use Money Productively 

Results from a 2005 program in Britain support the argument that the reduction of poverty promotes family stability, rather than the other way around. Increases in family income, especially through work opportunities, led to "sharp and sustained decreases in material hardship for the most vulnerable families," and, in the cases of households with children, more spending on family needs and less on alcohol and tobacco. A broader study of 18 European countries found "increasing employment commitment as social spending gets more generous" -- in other words, dividend payments encourage people to work harder, rather than the other way around. http://fcd-us.org/sites/default/files/First%20Focus%20-%20Tackling%20Child%20Poverty.pdf

http://wes.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/11/20/0950017014542499

Even the concept of providing grants to homeless people seems to work. In both Utah and California, trial programs have led to stable living conditions for dozens of formerly homeless people, with few conflicts or behavioral issues within the communities, and at a significantly lower cost than the alternative of temporary shelters.http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/housing-first-solution-to-homelessness-utah

At the Other Extreme: The Idle Rich 

Many wealthy white conservative males believe that hard work is the reason for their great fortunes. But for every ONE DOLLAR in safety net programs, SIX DOLLARS goes to tax expenditures, tax underpayments, tax havens, and corporate nonpayment. For many privileged Americans, denial is easier than facing the fact that the hardest workers are those who have to fight their way up from the bottom.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103115000852

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/14/why-so-many-americans-defend-failed-capitalist-experiment

Paul Buchheit is a college teacher with formal training in language development and cognitive science. He is the founder and developer of social justice and educational websites (UsAgainstGreed.org, RappingHistory.org, PayUpNow.org), and the editor and main author of "American Wars: Illusions and Realities" (Clarity Press). He can be reached at paul@UsAgainstGreed.org


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