Realistically how would you end poverty in America?

Answer 1

Stop spending all the money on weapons, and start spending it on the american people.

Answer 2

Realistically you can't end poverty since poverty is a state of mind and you cannot control states of mind. Poor people, the people lacking money, often have enough but not what others have because the others are not considered poor.

In general the answer to your question is in education, civil awareness, and employment. Beyond that you have to define poverty in more specific terms. Example: Is a monk poor because he lives as a hermit? Yes, because he has little or no money, or no, because he has everything he wants and the blessings of his religion?

Perhaps you mean in the terms of survival. After all the rich live on the interest of their capital investments without touching the assest itself. They can, in theory, live forever. A poor person lives paycheck to paycheck. So their rate of survival would be measured as one week plus. And go as long as you can survive without money.

Of course we live in the United States where there are charity and government agencies that will take care of most of our needs. So the question is answered by saying we have already ended poverty in America. We just don't know it! Perhaps education was the best answer after all. But a wise person once said, "to each his own." Which is the way it is with poverty, each defines it as his/hers own (way).

Answer 3

Open up daycares that are free for anyone who have been unemployed for more then 9 months. Set up jobfairs for the parents in the same building that the daycare is located. after the family has found employment,and has stayed employed for 6 months move the family to government housing that may better suit them if needed, but unfortunately these will only help those who want to be helped. There are many in poverty who can't be helped either because of drugs or alcohol. Or just don't want to work,and will never do anything to better there lives,and want to live on welfare instead. Welfare is not the solution it sometimes ads to the problem

Answer 4

I can totally understand your feelings when it comes to the race based scholarships. I would love to see what would happen if I offered a scholarship that said "Must be of a White decent" and made that a main qualification. However, it is legal. I wish it were not. It is as legal as having universities dedicated to black people, but not white. Imagine if I opened up the National Association of White People in compromise of the NAACP. Or imagine there being a National Association of White Secondary School Teachers, instead of the one which exists for Black teachers. Of finally, imagine there being a White History Month. Well, you get the picture. Nobody said the world was fair. You will have to do what I did when I went to college. Work full time and go to the university full time. It just means a social life is out of the question for you. I hope this helps.

Answer 5

Realistically - get rid of welfare and go back to the law that if you dont work you dont eat.

America is the greatest land of opportunity the world has ever known. If you are in poverty in this country it almost always has somethign to do with what you did to yourself - screwed around in school instead of paying attention, had babies before even graduating, drugs.

Answer 6

Redefine poverty to mean you actually have no place to live, no money, no food or resources instead of the current definition where the vast majority of people defined as impoverished own their own home (which is a statistical fact), have an income roughly 20 times the average third world income, adjusted for differences in economy....ie in real buying power not just cash) and never miss a meal nor want for an education, resources or opportunities.

What I am saying is there is no such thing as poverty in the US. Anyone who lives under such circumstances only does so because they want to live under a bridge smoking crack, rather than go to social services and get placed. The term "poverty" means something completely different here in the US. It means, not incredibly wealthy. That's not quite the same experience as an impoverished person in say, india.

Answer 7

Without virtue, integrity, moral values and responsibility, nothing will change. The elected/by choice loss of either the father or mother does not support stable, emotional, mental development that supports all the requirements of living with concern for each other. Without that, disparity will only fester and grow!

Family must be in place, Family = mother, father and children together.

The above vales have to be the mainstay of our learning process. Embodied in this must be education, not crowed/class control, but education. With in education must be the Arts,
therein lies our human creativity.

And for myself, the acknowledgment that there is a greater force than myself. For I did not bring me here, I do not know where I was before I came Here, and I do not know where I will go when I leave here. Too, nothing here did either you or I create, nor can we effect!

Answer 8

Ever heard of the fair tax movement? A straight tax on every dollar earned, for everyone, no breaks for big business.Something like 4% for every dollar would end poverty in this country and get us completely out of debt.

Answer 9

In order to end poverty you have to end laziness, immorality, and immaturity. Before you start chastising me about my answer go live among the homeless and see for yourself. I have and I've found that at least 80% are there because that is their choice. I am not saying that we should stop helping them, I'm saying that most of them are there because of situations they caused and there are people who will help help them get out of those situations but a lot of them refuse the help because they can't get it on their terms.

Answer 10

There will always be poverty. There will always be those people who choose to live unproductive lives. For an able bodied adult to live in poverty in this country, it IS by choice.

It isn't the government's job to take care of people. The constitution guarantees all citizens (illegal aliens are promised nothing) the rights to life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness. We are guaranteed the right to go after our dreams and make something of ourselves. If you don't make it... that's your fault.

Answer 11

If we would go back to the Word - it states that there are many things man should be doing to help the earth. We should be planting for 7 years and allowing the earth to rest and replenish itself. If we would return to living within in our means and sharing all of our gifts, food, etc. with our neighbors, everyone would have plenty. If we would put to work everyone who can work - and teach people 'how' to fish, instead of giving them a fish everyday to eat - if we would show more love toward ourselves and our neighbors - no neighborhood would be without what it needed - think of the 'village' concept. Pass it forward - and not be greedy - share the wealth among many and we are all wealthy.