Gingrich has it wrong about the poor
This country isn't great in spite of the poor. It is great
because of the poor.
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Newt Gingrich and others say the work ethic is absent in neighborhoods like the one I grew up in. That’s just wrong. Gingrich and his like have their collective noses too high up in the air to see this country isn’t great in spite of the poor. It is great because of the poor. I’m not saying that the richest country in the world should celebrate millions of her children going to bed hungry each night. But it should celebrate that so many of these children make it out of poverty and reach back to help those behind. They remember what it is like to be hungry. To be cold. To only be recognized for what they don’t have, if they are recognized at all.
Many poor people are "working poor", as this article points out. This is an important part of the conversation on poverty in the U.S. that is often overlooked.