People should enter adulthood with 3 goals:

- At least finish high school

- Get a full-time job

- Wait until age 21 to get married and have children.

Of the people who follow these:

- 2% are in poverty

- 75% joined the middle class

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/three-simple-rules-poor-teens-should-follow-to-join-the-middle-class/