No more war on drugs. There is 80% of your problem gone.
The last 20% is culture. The prominent culture, especially of the under 35 age group is deplorable.
-Gang Culture needs to no longer be idolized.
-Drug culture needs to no longer be idolized.
-Teen boys need to not think getting a girl pregnant 'makes you a man' Being there for your wife and kid is what makes you a man
-74% of kids growing up with out fathers is a serious problem, see above.
Where do these ideas get propagated and spread? Entertainment. Music is a huge one, when you get some unintelligible uneducated ignorant moron incoherently mumble some shit about drugs and bitches and he gets idolized, you're feeding that shit to your kids. When you listen to that and say its good, your kid hears it and learns its good, and there for infers the message is good.
While the war on drugs would be an immediate effect, changing culture takes generations. In 1965 75% of blacks had a nuclear family, 1983 we were down to 50%, today less than 30%. This took years and generation to happen, it will take years and generations to be reversed. Here is an interesting article from 1983 http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/20/us...ed=all&mcubz=0 Interesting because its about half way between desegregation/civil rights and today.
Lastly I'd cut welfare. No one should starve to death, no one needs to die of exposure. But the idea there should be 'dignity' to welfare is totally ****ed to me. There is no dignity to not being able to put a basic amount of food in your life. Welfare should be a last resort, not a life style choice. Keep feeding kids in school, the shit their parents do is not their fault, they shouldn't go hungry because mom spent welfare on crack.
We need another cultural shift, or at least to stop it before it goes to far. This shift crosses all races and incomes. As Americans 'living wage' should not be considered enough to have a family, and a two bedrooms, and all that crap. A 'living wage' should mean you are not starving, it should mean you and a few other people can afford to share an apartment and gasp, even rooms in said apartment. When you work a McDonalds doing your absolute minimum you should not be able to afford a family. A family is a luxury and it is earned through hard work and good choices. If you are finically struggling having a child is a hugely irresponsible choice, and its a choice. Poor communities would be a lot richer with less mouths to feed.
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