In effect, what is propsed is a strategy for solving the problem of poverty through a change in outlook. Planners recognize that social movements can be extraordinarily effective changing social conditions. Hello Bryan and everyone. I will take up your challenge to answer your specific questions and try to be specific and solution oriented. By the way, I graduated from UCSC in Biology in 1981.
Many people define poverty in primarily material terms.
For them, poverty can be eliminated by redistribution of wealth. Neither in themselves are satisfactory or for that matter effective. Poverty is more complex. Within families there is a breakdown from individual despair and isolation. Simply, you just get tired of surviving day after day.