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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Yeah. Tear down all projects/Section 8 housing, spread low income families all over the place with halfway decent housing and affordable housing so neighborhoods all have a true mix of classes and there are no concentrations of the super-poor. Allow everyone to vote (felons included) and make it a public holiday. Fund all public schools equally (per capita). Tax private schools to fund shortfalls in public schools. Increase the minimum wage. Provide access to daycare everywhere. End racism. Maintain these changes for 5 generations and reevaluate at that point. I suppose that's a good start.
TM
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As long as we're dreaming, I'd focus funding on schools not on per capita but on a need basis. An urban school that has a lot of immigrants who speak English as a second language, a lot of kids who need supplementary meals programs, and a lot of kids who may not have a safe way of going home after school has more need than a suburban all white all rich school.
There is a reason I advocate strongly to hire every kid who comes out of law school after being raised poor, whether urban poor or rural poor. On the whole, they're just tougher, harder working and of better character than rich kids from the 'burbs.
