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We can, but that requires someone to do something about it.
Governments often address only token issues rather than addressing underlying causes of poverty.
People don’t want to pay more in taxes for social programs to fix the underlying problems.
Low income housing for example is frequently stopped by the NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) crowd because low income housing is seen as bringing crime into an area.
Education for example is paid for with school taxes from the region. So a poor area doesn’t want to raise taxes to pay for better education. The fix is to even out the education budget across a State.
Raising the minimum wage is another obvious one, as many poor families have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. This means less free time, and less time to care for their own kids. But there’s a lot of resistance against this.
Free medical care, child care, and mental health treatments is another one that would help a lot but again that costs money.
Free education is another one. An adult has a hard time going back to school to get a better education because higher education is expensive, and you still have to put food on the table
Another good one is to reform the prison system.
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