Your ideas are fine, but wont help at all if we don’t do something about the fact that we pay out over half our money to some kind of tax. If we don’t reign in Fed, State, and Local spending, nothing is going to get people out of poverty.
Sanctioned thievery.
A trillion dollars, about 25% of the federal budget, is paid out in means tested poverty programs. That’s the huge block of spending that needs to be reduced by improving our economy and job creation, then moving people from government programs to gainful employment.
And then there is huge waste in most all government spending programs, adding up to a few hundred billion per year according to recent studies.