Poverty programs aren't aimed and aren't large enough to deal with the issue. Just lifting someone up enough to get them above the poverty line isn't the going

Poverty programs aren't aimed and aren't large enough to deal with the issue. Just lifting someone up enough to get them above the poverty line isn't the going to address the problem that their parents and their grandparents were systematically locked out of education, employment, and housing markets. That kind of wealth builds year on year and generation on generation and the gap will take longer to erase.