Reply #48: I agree with most of it. [View All]

[Juche]

I disagree that poverty has been brought home though, it has always been here. No idea if homelessness is a bigger trend than 30 years ago, I'd need to see data of that. And the reason healthcare and education are unaffordable is they go up in price about 7-10% a year while wages and inflation go up about 3% a year.

The war on poverty which LBJ fought actually worked. Poverty rates dropped from 22% to about 13% and have hovered in the low teens ever since. So poverty can be fought.



But your other points are good, and the Center for American Progress and their anti-poverty initiatives which are designed to cut poverty in half within 10 years address many of your concerns. They include unionization, higher minimum wages, tax cuts and subsidies for the poor, etc.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/04/poverty_report.html