1. "Guarenteed minimum income" for all workers thru:

2. Universal and affordable "single payer" health insurance with premiumns based on a sliding scale...

3. More money for job training and education

4. "Child care" subsidies

5. Increase funding for Mental Health

6. Public/Private partnerships between employers and prisons

7. Reform the "manditory sentencing laws"

8. Public Service ads that promote better understanding of poverty so that the rest of these ideas will be embraced...

How to fund:

1. Roll back the Bush tax cuts

2. Reform the tax codes that allow the rich to hide income in accounts off-shore

3. Institute a "value Added Tax" on all all good produced by the "Boss Hog, Inc.s" on stuff made in forieng plants with labor indexed to what it would cost to produce here in the US

4. Raise taxes on everyone who now pays for helath insurance by the amount that they will save with a centralized and more efficient "single payer" system...

5. Stop stupid people from starting stupid, expensive and unnecessary wars

Yeah, this is a bsic framework... These are all things I have advocated in the past and they are all serious suggestions on how to win the war on poverty...

Bobert