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The business of ending poverty

By David Hale - posted Friday, 18 September 2020


The ones who think a full-time job means no poverty or a university degree means no poverty. The ones that do not know the extent of poverty, the cost to escape it, the difficulty of escaping or just how long it can take to escape.   

We do not need more Chief Executives.  The ones with a vision on how to end poverty. 

Poverty does not exist because there are not enough ideas, reports, or speeches on how to end it. What does not exist are effective actions on a large enough scale.

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There may be enough ideas on how to end poverty, but there are concerns about some of the ideas that do exist.

The California Department of Social Services created a taskforce to end childhood poverty. One of the researchers noted that if existing programs were expanded, none of them would end childhood poverty.

The researcher noted a program that could end childhood poverty. It would be a targeted childcare tax credit. Basically, money to boost the incomes of low-income families.

This could virtually end poverty they tell us. Yet, could it be just in a theoretical sense. 

Only if the extra money is used to advance the welfare of the child, one assumes.  

The same can be noted about increasing welfare benefits in Australia. It only works to advance welfare of the person if the money is not consumed by debt repayments. By extended family members and friends demanding a share. By impulsive buying or bad investments or unexpected costs.

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There may be another group of people that should get out of the business of ending poverty.

The ones who are not even aiming to end it, but simply reduce it.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report on how to reduce childhood poverty in America, but not to end it.

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David Hale is an Anglican University Lay Chaplain, staff worker for the Australian Student Christian Movement and a member of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship.

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