"Great plan, Dickey. How would you apply that to poverty in the U.S.A.?"

How about some community based private enterprize like a babysitting co-op for working mothers, subsidized by the government?

Is there anything that single parent households can produce at home for profit?

It would have to be a network sort of thing. I saw a show on TV about Taiwan. A family, mother, father and kids, took turns manniung a toy wheel making machine in their living room while watching TV. They would make a big cart full and roll it out the back door and down the alley to another family that would make or assemble something else.

Government regulations stand in the way of much of this private enterprize. For example, day care centers required to have a commercial type kitchen to be legal and zoning laws preventing work at home.