> With a lot of hard work, I believe anyone can break out of poverty. I'm glad you made it; that's impresssive and great news. The data and research overwhelmi

> With a lot of hard work, I believe anyone can break out of poverty. I'm glad you made it; that's impresssive and great news. The data and research overwhelmingly disagree with your statement; so few make it. Read the stories of those kids in the article; it's not reasonable to say that they merely lacked hard work. As I posted elsewhere, the bar obviously is set much too high for most of humanity (and I assume we are talking about people in wealthy nations).