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I don't mean to say that more money will solve poverty. That approach seemed to have results early, but has stagnated or even reversed of late. What we should do is to rethink how we're spending the money that is already committed. I was one of the few liberal leaning people I know who didn't laugh off Newt Gingrich's suggestion of paying school kids to clean the lunch room and help out with chores around the school. I would be all in for giving a teenager $10/hr to clean up litter in my neighborhood. I think that some way of letting kids have the experience of making a paycheck, of having their own money that they earned, will do wonders to break the cycle of poverty that gets passed through the generations.