Title: Three Steps We Can Take to Solve Poverty, From Someone Who Knows Firsthand | BillMoyers.com
Headings: Three Steps We Can Take to Solve Poverty, From Someone Who Knows Firsthand
Three Steps We Can Take to Solve Poverty, From Someone Who Knows Firsthand
Three recommendations for solving poverty
1. Provide living wages and family-oriented labor policies
2. Invest in a safety net that supports and promotes economic mobility
Improve the overall safety net in five ways
3. Invest in community solutions, run by people who know poverty firsthand

Content: Let me tell you something that everyone who has ever been on public assistance knows. When families start to make a little bit more money on the job, they lose benefits too quickly. It creates an economic shock. Then families are worse off. This makes it practically impossible to build our way out of poverty. We need to fix the system so that we can get out of poverty. My friend Barbie experienced this firsthand when she got a job helping people apply for SNAP benefits. She was so happy to finally have stable — and fulfilling — employment. But her small increase in wages made her lose benefits so quickly that her family felt the effects of hunger more severely than before. This falling off the cliff caused her great depression and stress and more suffering for her kids.