Legalize heroin and crack. Hell, let them pay for a business license to open up a street corner hot dog stand / drug dealer / baby food supplier for one stop shopping for all the single white, black, hispanic trash mothers.
Heck, declare Heroin, crack, crank, meth a Federally subsidized abortifacient, that will make sure states have no say in the matter.
Just pass an ordinance to not dispose of bodies in the public view. Na, Na, we’ll have somebody go around ringing a bell chanting “Bring out your dead”.
It’s the opposite. It’s local, state and federal regs that cause poverty and the drug trade. Kids work in the drug trade for much less than a dollar or two an hour on the street. Minimum wage laws make these already difficult to hire kids impossible to hire in legitimate work.
Toss in zoning, permitting and licensing laws and you’ve got a recipe for poverty.