According to Secretary of Housing and Urban Developement Ben Carson, poverty is "a state of mind."
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00:00I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind.
00:11You take somebody who has the right mindset,
00:15you can take everything from them and put them on the street,
00:19and I guarantee you in a little while they'll be right back up there.
00:26And you take somebody with the wrong mindset,
00:29you can give them everything in the world.
00:31They'll work their way back down to the bottom.
00:34So, you know, a lot of it also has to do with what we teach children.
00:45Probably a sense of values.
00:48Okay.
00:49Strong values.