A NEW WAR ON POVERTY

EDUCATION

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• Education needs to be started at an early age in children
• There needs to be a revival of the apprenticeship attitude
• There need to be slightly higher wages for teachers as incentives...
• For higher calliber professionals to become teachers for younger students
• This can help students look forward to their futures and as a result change the world

PERCENT OF GOV. SPENDING FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

MINIMUM WAGE

MINIMUM WAGE: RAISE IT?

• Raising it would make it harder for business owners to pay existing employees
• This means more people would be either laid off or fired
• The minimum wage should be raised slowly over a certain period of time
• $12-$-15 for minimum wage would be too drastic of a change and depending
• On how long a min. wage worker has been with a comp. decide wages

JOB CREATION

WE NEED MORE WORKERS

• Publicize certain industries to create government jobs
• Focus education on career-streamed education to meet industry demand.
• Create additional worker benefits for government jobs such as...
• Better basic healthcare and low cost childcare because...
• Benefits can help workers more, overall

STRENGTHENING THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET

THE THREE STEP APPROACH

• Mobility
• Communication
• Information

MOBILITY

• Rural communities now have the highest rates of poverty
• Outreach programs lack the mobility to reach remote rural communities.
• Goal: Create branches of mobile social outreach programs...
• For the poor in rural communities who have limited access to help

COMMUNICATION

• Secular and non-secular organizations are found in some of the poorest...
• Communities where they are seen as trusted sources of aid
• Goal: Invest in pre-existing organizations to expand their outreach.

INFORMATION

• A big barrier here for people in poverty is getting access to accurate info
• Goal: to update and reformat website iformation increasing accessability
• Also to provide internet based services such as financial consultation..
• Employment opportunities and low cost housing advertisement
• This could help people not only get better info. but also make money

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