It’s Labor Day weekend, so a lot of kids out there are going back to school. Sometimes you have kids who are really excited to go to school and are super academic, and then sometimes you’ve got kids who only go to school because they’re willing to play athletics or because there’s something in the extracurricular universe that keeps them engaged.

One of the things that’s so frustrating about schools shutting down is the harm it did, especially to poor kids, but there’s one road away from poverty that’s open to all racial groups, all socioeconomic groups. You can’t guarantee someone in America that they’re going to be rich. Can’t do it. There are lots of things that have to go your way.

But you can guarantee that every kid in America will not be poor if they do these three things:

1. Graduate from high school.
2. Don’t have a kid before you are 25 years old.
3. Get married.

We can guarantee you that if you do those things — which every kid in America can do — your poverty rate is zero.