My mind is blown by the inaccuracies in this post. Drugs and alcohol abuse are far bigger issues with those in poverty. And the comment about food is laughable. What's cheaper? McDonald's or Whole Foods? I mean, seriously, I get that it's important to encourage people to work hard, but this sounds like the advice of a person who has never met a truly poor person. I work on a school with a very high poverty rate. These kids and their families are poor, really poor. They work hard, really hard. They are not lucky, or healthy. How fortunate to be in a bubble and not really understand poverty.