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No, and for most people, breaking out of poverty requires a lot more than just high-demand skills.

Mindsets, networks, seed funds (to buy interview clothes and travel to interviews), safety nets, self-confidence, time, cultural assumptions, knowledge of (or someone to ask about) white-collar professional etiquette, and a whole host of other things that people from upper middle class backgrounds take for granted can make it difficult for people in poverty to find or keep jobs with those new skills.

And if you have no rainy day fund, an unexpected expense like a car breakdown (because you couldn’t afford a reliable car in the first place) can derail you and force you to start all over again.