"The War on Poverty is a 33 year old quagmire we need to find a way out of."
Hell that's easy. Send ALL the illegals home. Plenty of jobs and no more poverty. Not that there is much real poverty here any way.
Our poor are well-fed, and many have cell phones and video game consoles.
Granted, I've seen some more truly poor people, but nobody like you see in third-world hellholes.