Quoting Tevi Troy, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former Deputy Secretary of HHS and senior White House aide:
According to an article Ron Haskins and Isabelle Sawhill wrote in the Washington Post summarizing reaserach for their book, Creating an Opportunity Society: "If you want to avoid poverty and join the middle class in the United States, you need to complete high school (at a minimum), work full time and marry before you have children." As Haskins and Sawhill put it, "If you do all three, your chances of being poor fall from 12 percent to 2 percent, and your chances of joining the middle class or above rise from 56 to 74 percent."
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