Commentary: Intergenerational poverty creates a permanent underclass

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.”— Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the BeagleThe Johnson administration’s efforts in the 1960s to eradicate poverty did not bear much fruit. Nationally, the poverty rate for all people as well as all families dropped significantly from 1960 to mid-1970s, but since then it has increased. The Utah Legislature enacted the Intergenerational Poverty Mitigation Act in 2012 wi