Why it is hard to leave poverty

…is seen in Bianca Perry’s difficult path from poverty to college graduation.

In other news, the Republican-led state of Kansas has hit on a fresh method of punishing poor people while enriching banks. And for good measure, this living laboratory of Movement Conservative ideology, already reduced to a smoking ruin by the triumph of the ideology over reality, tells poor people they can’t go swimming or take in a movie, just for spite’s sake (God forbid poor people get some exercise or have a simple human pleasure). Meanwhile, Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal do their best to endear themselves to the Party of Crazy by gutting higher ed in their states (God forbid people like Bianca Perry escape the grind of poverty). So important to punish the poor. So, so important.