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Alan Forrest Imhoff's avatar

What China has implemented successfully at scale is a system like many states use here with piecemeal results. Social workers, mostly degreed professionals, track and intervene in situations of dire poverty. They are underpaid and severely underfunded especially in states controlled by Republicans where the poor are blamed for their own condition and public aid is disbursed only under restrictive conditions. Accountability is buried in welfare paperwork. Poverty thus persists despite money being spent. There hasn’t been a clear, national scale antipoverty program since LBJ.

The capitalists’ system depends on a poor and depressed working class as a cheap, manipulable and disposable commodity.

Christine Tara's avatar

I'll refer to the "Kill Zone". In the USA people are so broken that they don't know where to turn. I was fortunate to use food stamps many years ago. I was given $86.00 a month. Families of four get $200 per month, not week. The Kill Zone.

Pat Duke's avatar

I’m not quite understanding how the official helps the family to implement change. Does he/she listen, assess, repeat back what he/she heard the family report to make sure it is understood?

Then, how does the official come up with a plan? So they have special resources? Let’s say that lack of education has been an issue in the household’s attempt to gain upward mobility. What would the official do?

Also, I googled poverty figures for China. How would you have enough party members in some of the regions??

This is fascinating. I hope you see this and answer. Thank you.