Civil Rights

• Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Now
• Pay wages comparable to the cost of living
• Assist in re-education if jobs not available
• Invest in youth -- especially rehabilitated juvenile offenders
• Tackle poverty holistically -- then give people freedom to succeed
• Help ex-prisoners get back to work
• Decriminalize petty drug offenses

Education

• Provide low cost, subsidized higher education
• Get more schooling or training
• Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Now
• Make higher education free to everyone
• Fund and use public libraries
• Learn to manage a bank account
• Educate to change financial behaviors
• Support education through college
• Cover tuition for people working in areas of need (beyond teaching and health care)
• Institute an alternate economic system
• Support people early on: Avoid increasing poverty through neglect
• Reimburse tuition for A and B college students
• Take advantage of educational opportunities: Become a lifelong learner
• Use technology to target youth mentoring efforts
• Invest in summer education programs
• Follow some brutally simple steps
• Fold low- or no-cost early childhood education into daycare
• Provide resources for new, single moms -- and advertise them
• Require social and emotional intelligence training in K-12 schools
• Assist in re-education if jobs not available
• Improve technology (broadband access) in rural areas and invest in local, small business development
• Provide low-income grants for two-year college and associated costs such as child care
• Read together as a family at home
• Create green jobs
• Tackle poverty holistically -- then give people freedom to succeed
• Provide school- and home-based tutors and mentors (and other education support)
• Invest in early childhood education
• Create cooperative living communities for employed but homeless people
• Encourage education

Government & Legislation

• Move commodity subsidies to small-scale farmers
• Vote for fiscal conservatives (regardless of party affiliation)
• Change trade, labor, tax and finance laws
• Shrink government
• Fund and use public libraries
• Enforce federal immigration laws
• Reduce government intervention
• Stop random drug testing of federal employees
• Remember Coolidge: Get government out of the way!
• Reduce government spending and lower taxes
• Punish companies who hire illegal immigrants
• Eliminate the link between politics and money

Health

• Provide free or affordable counseling
• Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Now
• Fund and use public libraries
• Fund health care for everyone via a uniform tax
• Re-establish the middle class
• Follow some brutally simple steps
• Provide medical insurance
• Tackle poverty holistically -- then give people freedom to succeed
• Provide free medical care
• Assign health care case worker to people with chronic or systemic illnesses

Housing

• A comprehensive Village for low-income Mothers and Children
• Clean up the crime in subsidized housing!
• Raise or eliminate public housing age limits
• Let homeless people live in empty homes
• Create cooperative living communities for employed but homeless people

Income

• Get banks to fund a microcredit program for poor in the United States
• Pay living wages for ALL work (and institue a jobs program)
• Subsidize transitional employment wages
• Establish a universal guaranteed adequate income
• Pay wages comparable to the cost of living
• Guarantee everyone a minimum annual income
• Raise the minimum wage
• Eliminate both minimum wage and excessive executive compensation
• Target poverty wages
• Implement a universal living wage
• Raise minimum wage
• Adjust minimum wage monthly to regional cost of living
• Re-establish the middle class
• Pay people for any and all net benefits they produce

Jobs

• Move commodity subsidies to small-scale farmers
• Pay living wages for ALL work (and institue a jobs program)
• Implement work programs
• Subsidize transitional employment wages
• Reduce employer overhead...and more
• Work!
• Get more schooling or training
• Ease process of getting small business loans
• Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Now
• Enforce federal immigration laws
• Create jobs from land policy change
• Teach and model self determination
• Punish companies who hire illegal immigrants
• Promote self-employment
• Cover tuition for people working in areas of need (beyond teaching and health care)
• Launch federal work opportunities
• Support people early on: Avoid increasing poverty through neglect
• Raise the poverty line, implement protectionist tariffs, and institute employee representation in corporate decision making
• Increase jobs
• Guarantee jobs for the poorest of the poor
• Teach them what you know
• Assist in re-education if jobs not available
• Provide low-income grants for two-year college and associated costs such as child care
• Invest in training and employing new workers in sustainable energy
• Employ the unemployed in meeting the needs of their local community
• Invest in small business development
• Create green jobs
• Tackle poverty holistically -- then give people freedom to succeed
• Help ex-prisoners get back to work
• Hire older, experienced workers
• Create cooperative living communities for employed but homeless people

Personal Finance

• Privatize Social Security (like Chile has)
• Freeze credit card interest and late fees
• Teach and model self determination
• Learn to manage a bank account
• Live with less stuff
• Educate to change financial behaviors
• Allow people on government assistance to build assets
• Cap credit card interest rates and fees

Public Perception

• Pay wages comparable to the cost of living
• Find satisfaction in more than money
• Stop redefining poverty for political reasons
• Adjust society's attitude -- majorly
• Help ex-prisoners get back to work
• Increase public awareness of poverty

Social Networks

• Support mentoring programs
• Share food, not bombs
• Find satisfaction in more than money
• Work together
• Teach and model self determination
• Support education through college
• Create sustainable support systems within communities
• Institute an alternate economic system
• Use technology to target youth mentoring efforts
• Invest in summer education programs
• Care about others (Fight the war within)
• Provide resources for new, single moms -- and advertise them
• Invest in youth -- especially rehabilitated juvenile offenders
• Tackle poverty holistically -- then give people freedom to succeed
• Make friends and share your story
• Provide school- and home-based tutors and mentors (and other education support)
• Cultivate neighborhood grocery store mentors

Taxes

• Implement work programs
• Vote for fiscal conservatives (regardless of party affiliation)
• Reduce employer overhead...and more
• Shrink government
• Privatize Social Security (like Chile has)
• Create jobs from land policy change
• Tax the rich!
• Remember Coolidge: Get government out of the way!
• Tax privilege, not productive work
• Implement a flat income tax
• Reduce government spending and lower taxes
• Fund health care for everyone via a uniform tax
• Provide mobile-accessible bank accounts and graduated social services; reduce program bureaucracy
• Raise the poverty line, implement protectionist tariffs, and institute employee representation in corporate decision making
• Provide grants and tax breaks for worker-owned startups
• Implement a reversible income tax

Technology

• Provide mobile-accessible bank accounts and graduated social services; reduce program bureaucracy
• Raise the poverty line, implement protectionist tariffs, and institute employee representation in corporate decision making
• Use technology to target youth mentoring efforts
• Adjust minimum wage monthly to regional cost of living
• Improve technology (broadband access) in rural areas and invest in local, small business development

Welfare

• Reduce employer overhead...and more
• Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Now
• Remember Coolidge: Get government out of the way!
• Reassess poverty levels
• Provide mobile-accessible bank accounts and graduated social services; reduce program bureaucracy
• Raise the poverty line, implement protectionist tariffs, and institute employee representation in corporate decision making
• Implement a universal living wage
• Make Social Security easier to navigate and obtain
• Implement a reversible income tax
• Provide subsidies and support for quality day care
• Let homeless people live in empty homes
• Fold low- or no-cost early childhood education into daycare
• Assist in re-education if jobs not available
• Provide low-income grants for two-year college and associated costs such as child care
• Develop welfare programs that foster interdependent generations
• Tackle poverty holistically -- then give people freedom to succeed
• Adjust society's attitude -- majorly
• End government assistance
• Provide "one stop" coordinated and comprehensive social services

Other

• Move commodity subsidies to small-scale farmers
• Pull together to support our government
• Share food, not bombs
• Define the problem (knowledge is power)
• Live with less stuff
• Eliminate the link between politics and money
• Institute an alternate economic system
• Adjust the numerical indices of poverty
• Return value of all land occupied to the community (Abolish private land ownership)
• Provide grants and tax breaks for worker-owned startups
• Pay people for any and all net benefits they produce
• Provide resources for new, single moms -- and advertise them
• Employ the unemployed in meeting the needs of their local community
• Choose to live more simply
• Encourage people to tell their own stories