The mayor of San Antonio claims one of the deepest causes of poverty is the lack of a relationship with God. Speaking at a candidates’ forum early this month, Mayor Ivy Taylor was asked what she thought were the “deepest systemic causes of generational poverty” in the city. In a video posted online by NOWCastSA, she said: “Since you’re with the Christian Coalition, I’ll go ahead and put it out there that to me, it’s broken people.