For most in the U.S. poverty is a lifestyle. The government is not able to correct that.
It is the opportunity through liberty that the government should ensure. Whether an individual or family decides to take that and run it out to wealth and prosperity, or retreat into starvation and a wasted life is on each own.
Pure and true liberty is a terrifying thing (for the unmotivated or sloth)
A lifestyle with a government check that somehow affords them a tv in every room. A room for every kid. And bling for everyone.