Yep. A lot don't. But a lot do...
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>i think it important to look at the lives of people who are poor and
>without children. we can almost always stir up support for helping
>people with children, but getting people to worry about the working
>poor who are single is another issue.
Lloyd Bentsen used to say that focusing on children was the only way he thought progress could be made--that the idea of the frontier and the self-reliant individual was just too strong in America for there to be a durable majority coalition that worried about the single working poor.
Brad DeLong