acknowledge: If you follow the Success Sequence, you won’t be poor. But if you fail to follow the Success Sequence, it’s 50/50 that you (and your kids) will be poor. That’s what the data teaches, plain and simple. If you finish high school, get a job, and get married before having children—in that order—you have only about a 3 percent statistical chance of ending up poor. By contrast, life is really, really hard for most folks who forgo these basics. Admitting this has nothing to do with “liberal” or “conservative” perspectives. It’s just the reality, backed up by a mountain of research.
