Not sure if you have seen Milton Freidman's talks on Poverty and Equality, but I would highly recommend them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKc6esIi0_U https

Not sure if you have seen Milton Freidman's talks on Poverty and Equality, but I would highly recommend them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKc6esIi0_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKc6esIi0_U To summarize: How free are the poor and what is the government's role? [1] Governments don't have responsibility, people have responsibility. [2] The free-market is the most effective system towards ending poverty. [3] Bad government failures result in welfare schemes has been machine to produce poor people.