50% of poor parents say it is extremely important to them that their children earn a college degree, compared with 39% of wealthier parents.

50%的贫困父母表示，他们的孩子获得大学学位对他们来说极其重要，相比之下，在富裕一些的父母当中，这一比例为39%。

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His family was extremely poor. During his childhood, he sang in church with his parents.

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Again, there's no advertising affecting this, there's no parents being irresponsible and buying sugary cereals for the poor little animals.

此外,这个结果并不受广告营销的影响,也不因为有父母不负责任,给这个可怜的小动物买高糖的谷物

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But attempts to bring in any sort of choice for poor parents have failed.

ECONOMIST: New York's mayor

These would enable poor parents to choose their children's schools (including, controversially, private and religious schools) thus promoting competition to attract pupils.

ECONOMIST: Brown v Board of Education

It literally doesn't pay for working poor parents to marry.

FORBES: For The Working Poor, Marriage Is A Costly Luxury