Claim: According to an article in the Economist magazine, Americans are "guaranteed" to live above the poverty line if they graduate from high school, keep their first job for over a year and get and stay married.
Fact-check: Smitherman partly captures virtual guarantee to escape poverty, but theory also relies on economy being strong
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2013-09-18T00:00:00