A lot of states do. Maryland and California have housing and food programs for the poor (google "Maryland HOC"). Yet it doesn't seem to help much in terms of br

A lot of states do. Maryland and California have housing and food programs for the poor (google "Maryland HOC"). Yet it doesn't seem to help much in terms of breaking out of inter-generational poverty - you just have poor people living in middle class houses trashing up the neighborhood and devaluing all the properties around them.