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http://www.theatlantic.com/business...ing-the-least-to-help-the-poor/248487/#slide1
The article talks about the 10 states that help the poor the "least"
The system the article talks about is the local government using local taxes to help bolster the poor into better living, but does it really work?
What can we do? Why are there poor people? lack of education? social differences? lack of opportunity? too much social welfare? (i.e. lack of motivation to do better)
The problem I see is that in our current society, I don't think there is a way to fix this. there will ALWAYS be people taking advantage of the system (the top 1% or bottom 1% it doesn't matter) We all take advantage of the system one form or another. Sometimes in a single instance and sometimes over long period (this is a generalization not to anyone particular on the forum, I meant the world)
There are groups of people don't want our country to be socialist, but I think we are partly there in some aspect in term of unemployment, WIC, food stamps, government assist in housing and such.
The problem would be that no matter how you change the system there will be people who need the system legit and some will abuse it. So how do we fix it?
the only way I can think of (truly fix) is set standards but of course some standards would be hard to do without being a police states.
Some ideas
low income housing: you have a basic housing for a family of 4 (2 bedroom apt) these are restricted to minimal furnishing and not allow to have "high end" like 55" LED screen or alienware computer. If you can afford that, then you don't get this housing. This is government funded to help people who lost their home and need a place to stay. Abuse and you get booted.
Food stamps/WIC/family assist: we all need this sometimes when times are tough. It is a good system to have, but there should be people to check up on people who are using this system. Those who abuse it, lose assistance (this may not be popular to some)
Education: there should be more money into education across the board. A total education reform is needed. Train teachers and have federal standard (probably not going to happen) toss out in-school standardize test and have "achievement test" (basically you take a test at the end of the grade level to get to the next grade level. this is independent of the school. Similar to Japan and China system. As long you pass, government will pay for your schooling (or depending on your grade, you can get government assistant) of course this might not be popular cause people like me may not get a break (my grades were not THAT good)
These are just rough ideas tossing out there on a whim (thinking and typing while at work) so feel free to tear it apart
The article talks about the 10 states that help the poor the "least"
The system the article talks about is the local government using local taxes to help bolster the poor into better living, but does it really work?
What can we do? Why are there poor people? lack of education? social differences? lack of opportunity? too much social welfare? (i.e. lack of motivation to do better)
The problem I see is that in our current society, I don't think there is a way to fix this. there will ALWAYS be people taking advantage of the system (the top 1% or bottom 1% it doesn't matter) We all take advantage of the system one form or another. Sometimes in a single instance and sometimes over long period (this is a generalization not to anyone particular on the forum, I meant the world)
There are groups of people don't want our country to be socialist, but I think we are partly there in some aspect in term of unemployment, WIC, food stamps, government assist in housing and such.
The problem would be that no matter how you change the system there will be people who need the system legit and some will abuse it. So how do we fix it?
the only way I can think of (truly fix) is set standards but of course some standards would be hard to do without being a police states.
Some ideas
low income housing: you have a basic housing for a family of 4 (2 bedroom apt) these are restricted to minimal furnishing and not allow to have "high end" like 55" LED screen or alienware computer. If you can afford that, then you don't get this housing. This is government funded to help people who lost their home and need a place to stay. Abuse and you get booted.
Food stamps/WIC/family assist: we all need this sometimes when times are tough. It is a good system to have, but there should be people to check up on people who are using this system. Those who abuse it, lose assistance (this may not be popular to some)
Education: there should be more money into education across the board. A total education reform is needed. Train teachers and have federal standard (probably not going to happen) toss out in-school standardize test and have "achievement test" (basically you take a test at the end of the grade level to get to the next grade level. this is independent of the school. Similar to Japan and China system. As long you pass, government will pay for your schooling (or depending on your grade, you can get government assistant) of course this might not be popular cause people like me may not get a break (my grades were not THAT good)
These are just rough ideas tossing out there on a whim (thinking and typing while at work) so feel free to tear it apart