My experience disagrees with your experience, again based on my own life and people I actually know. The data, broadly speaking, matches up with my experience

My experience disagrees with your experience, again based on my own life and people I actually know. The data, broadly speaking, matches up with my experience -- "some report" agrees with my "in the field" data, and with yummyfajitas' "in the field" data, and many others' "in the field" data. "Scalzi's article describes a fairly atypical poverty experience"; you and Scalzi are the outliers, not the norm.