Comment by keeganjw

What bugs me about this is reading the comments. Instead reading this news and thinking that when large swathes of the population are doing poorly there must be something wrong with the system, they turn around and just blame people for being stupid and lazy. There are tons of people in this country that grow up poor, in bad neighborhoods, with bad schools, and no hope of going to college and when things don't turn out well for them, we blame them for it. It may come as a shock to people from other countries but in the US school funding is extremely local. If you're from a rich neighborhood, your school has tons of money and resources. If you grow up in a poor neighborhood, some barely have enough money to keep the roof from leaking. And we've all just accepted this as normal and OK. We have the power to change this but we choose not to.