what can be done to reduce poverty in America?

[carterstamp]

Originally Posted by other99

I dont live in America but I know an friend there and she hand her family live in conditions like third world conditions. She lives in an very disadvantaged area and cant get work. Her husband works but gets an income which is barely the min wage which is barely enough to pay for the rent. Hearing her story sounds like hearing someone from an poverty stricken country.

So how big is the poverty problem in America and what can be done to reduce it?

Education.

[LAWS]

1) Get rid of the debt-money system and fractional reserve banking.
2) Stop telling people if they spend $100k on a (worthless) degree they WILL get a $100k job when the truth is theyll get a job flipping burgers, if any job at all.
3) Import controls. Stop dependance on foreign oil.
4) Stop monopoly protection in healthcare.
5) Stop importing poverty via third world immigration.

[LAWS]

Originally Posted by carterstamp

Education.

Ha! America is the most over educated, yet stupid country on earth. Practically no where else sends as many people off to college as the US.

[JazzyTallGuy]

Originally Posted by theunbrainwashed

Take the drugs out of the inner city, and that will greatly improve the lives of many. But most importantly, you have to take out the "thug life" mentality that moronic teenagers kiss up to and carries into adulthood. And you also have to gradually take away their welfare benefits, and stop creating conditions in which women that shouldn't be having kids at all are benefitting from having more kids they can't support, those creating more of these thugs because the mom and dad are unfit for parenting

I agree with taking drugs out of the inner city. But that you aren't isn't going to change the "thug life' culture. In fact since welfare reform during the Clinton administration there are FEWER people on welfare than before. Also the majority of people living in poverty DON'T LIVE IN INNER CITIES.

If you aren't willing to address rural poverty or address poverty without racializing it, then nothing you propose will totally alleviate poverty in America.