Quote Originally Posted by corktownyuppie View Post
I don't know when or if we will ever solve poverty as an existence. However, I do believe that we can vastly improve on this notion of generational poverty where the cultural norms reinforce other destructive norms and perpetuate themselves. But the path to getting there is a better understanding of the mind and mental illness.
When I consider this question, I think about all the difficulties they have had in Germany bringing the former East Germans back into the fold. It hasn't been an easy project, but they seem prepared to dig in for the long haul and ensure that the next generation of people doesn't inherit the social abnormalities of a police state.

Could it work here? Who knows? The New Deal and the Great Society produced concrete gains in fighting poverty. It certainly hasn't been tried in a long time. It could work again.