Can we end disadvantage?

Nothing is going to be a magic wand.

The foundation could fund child-care places giving parents more opportunities to work. Yet, covering the cost of say 10,000 children for example, could cost about one million dollars, per day.

One could simply just transfer money over to the poor. Helping to lift them above the poverty line, but this has limitations. As noted, the 84 million shared equally amongst 3 million poor, is under $30 per person.

Should we accept that what is done by any foundation, will only ever help a certain amount of people in need?

Give up on the idea that we can help everyone?

So, while there is talk that no one should live in disadvantage in Australia, we know that most people in poverty, will remain in it.

Should we focus on one well-funded solution, or a multitude of solutions? Do enough solutions even exist?

Can we really end disadvantage in the country?

The Ramsay foundation noted Melbourne Foundation findings, that found only 14% of girls born to the poorest families, will escape poverty. For boys, it is higher, but still only 22% of them will escape the clutches of poverty.

So, this means the foundation, governments, the education system, the church and others, have failed. Not only to end poverty, but to even help the majority escape it.

If the Melbourne Foundation numbers are even remotely accurate, that is a very dismal future.

It means governments reducing welfare or increasing it has not work enough. It means schools, even with boosts to funding, have not been able to bring most people that are poor, out of poverty.

Neo-liberalism or anything for that matter, has not worked.

Not even the richest foundation in Australia may be able to end disadvantage.