Consider someone with the right “mind-set.” Take away everything he owns, drop him onto the street, and he will soon lift himself out of poverty.
“And you take somebody with the wrong mind-set,” Mr. Carson, the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, continued last week in a SiriusXM radio interview with his longtime friend Armstrong Williams. “You can give them everything in the world. They’ll work their way right back down to the bottom.”
Poverty, Mr. Carson is saying, is in part a state of mind. But while that idea holds truth, researchers who study poverty say Mr. Carson has greatly confused cause and effect....
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