Some poor adults do not look for jobs for a variety of personal reasons: they are sick, they do not have any motivation(动力). They have family problems, or they do not believe that they can find a job. ______ Many poor adults never went to high school. Therefore, when they look for jobs, they have few skills that they can offer.
A. At the present time, the government thinks it can reduce poverty in the country in the following ways.
B. However, if these people had stable jobs, they could have an acceptable standard of living.
C. Other poor people look for a job but cannot find one.
D. In 1975 over 18 million people in the United States received welfare.
E. As the general standard of living in the country rises, the poverty line does, too.
F. Some economists are looking for beaer solutions to the poverty problem.