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HOW CAN WE FIGHT WITH POORITY. ..AND WHAT SHOULD WANT THEY GOVT
..for poor people...


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Answered by iqrafatima
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[In this answer, I’m defining “poverty” in absolute terms – that is, as living below a particular standard of living.   I emphasize this point because these days many people define “poverty” in purely relative terms -- as living too below the average in a given society.  That way of thinking of matters makes poverty simply a synonym for inequality.  I don’t think that’s helpful.]

The answer to your question depends on whether the country in question is a rich or a poor country.  Globally, most poor people are poor because they live in poor countries.  In those countries, the key to poverty reduction is inclusive economic growth.  On average across countries, economic growth tends to raise the incomes of poor households at about the same rate as households above the poverty line.  As a result, poor countries that achieve rapid economic growth almost always achieve rapid reductions in poverty-- the most striking case being China since 1978.  Exactly what the government of poor country should do to achieve faster growth depends on the country—another big question that I won’t get into here.  But to maximize the poverty-reducing impact of growth, the government should undertake complementary investments ensure that growth is inclusive.  The most important is to ensure that all children gain basic skills in school—especially reading—starting in the early grades. Most developing countries have expanded their school systems a lot in recent decades, but in many of those countries a large share of children finish school without ever learning to read.  A huge waste of human potential.

In rich countries, the situation is a bit different.  In these cases the poor represent a minority of the population, who often face particular problems that set them apart from the majority.  In the United States in particular, kids growing up in poor families are often victimized by poor child-rearing practices and single-parent families, attend bad schools with other poor kids, and more generally grow up surrounded by other poor people, giving them the impression that their situation is normal and inevitable.  In these neighborhoods, the War on Drugs has inadvertently created a situation in which drug dealing appears to be the most promising career path.

In a situation like this, government policies need to focus on helping poor people-- especially poor children-- escape from these conditions.  Early childhood interventions, including intensive preschool programs and programs aimed at improving parental skills, have lots of promise.  Unfortunately, the programs we’ve got, like Head Start, don’t seem to be all that effective.  Scaling up successful pilots is often difficult, in part because they run into political pressure to hire staff from the neighborhood rather than demand high levels of skill.  Improving the schools that serve poor neighborhoods is essential but again challenging.  Teacher training in the United States tends to be awful, systematically deprecating effective methods like Direct Instruction in favor of “politically correct” methods like “whole language” reading instruction and “discovery math.”   Poor children are the biggest victims of these shams.  Greater reliance on charter schools and other forms of school choice could help, but need to become combined with reliable means to monitor learning so that motivated parents can distinguish good schools from bad ones.

As suggested above, ending the War on Drugs would help on balance, by removing the rewards drug dealing and the violence surrounding it.  Some people would be hurt, but experience of European countries suggests that the numbers would be relatively small. 

Safety net programs are essential, but tricky to design.  One key feature is to ensure strong incentives for work. Work helps connect people to the larger society, gives them a sense of accomplishment and purpose in life, and provides skills through experience and on-the-job training that far exceed what public job training programs accomplish.  Current enthusiasm for radically increased minimum wages ignores the strong evidence that high minimum wages encourage employers to mechanize and to rely on fewer, better-skilled employees and get rid of low-skilled workers, including young people who have just entered the labor force.  Proponents of such policies seem to be motivated more by a desire to punish the rich than help the poor.  If they really wanted to help poor people, they’d push for a dramatic expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which is far more helpful to the poor and encourages them to keep working rather than making it harder for them to do so.  

It’s a big topic, and I’ve barely scratched the surface, but I would contend that policies like these have considerable promise for reducing poverty.
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Answered by Anonymous
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The Top 10 Solutions to Cut Poverty and Grow the Middle Class

  1. Create jobs. ...
  2. Raise the minimum wage. ...
  3. Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit for childless workers. ...
  4. Support pay equity. ...
  5. Provide paid leave and paid sick days. ...
  6. Establish work schedules that work. ...
  7. Invest in affordable, high-quality child care and early education. ...
  8. Expand Medicaid.

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