United States: 2011, that includes goals and objec-
tives relating to— 
(A) reducing in half the number of Ameri-
cans living in poverty as reported by the 2012 
Census report on Income, Poverty and Health 
Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011; 
(B) eliminating child poverty in America; 
(C) eliminating extreme poverty in Amer-
ica; 
(D) improving the effectiveness and out-
comes of poverty related programs by improving 
our understanding of the root causes of poverty, 
the social, economic, and the cultural contribu-
tors to persistent intergenerational poverty; 
(E) improving the measure of poverty to 
include more indicators and measures that can 
meaningfully account for other aspects relating 
to the measure of poverty, such as regional dif-
ferences in costs of living, the impact of rising 
income inequality, the impact of the persistent 
‘‘digital divide’’, expanding the understanding 
of poverty by distinguishing a standard that 
measures a level of freedom from deprivation 
versus a standard that measures a standard of 
economic adequacy provided by a living wage 
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and access to a decent living standard, and the 
impact of poverty on other measures of eco-
nomic stability and economic outcomes, such as 
educational attainment, rates of incarceration, 
lifetime earnings, access to health care, health 
care outcomes, access to housing, and including 
other measures as necessary to improve our un-
derstanding of why poverty persists in America; 
(F) eliminating the disparate rates of pov-
erty based on race, ethnicity, gender, age, or 
sexual 
orientation 
and 
identity, 
especially 
among children in those households so im-
pacted; 
(G) measuring effectiveness of poverty re-
lated programs on the basis of long-term out-
comes, including the long-term savings and 
value of preventive practice and policy, and em-
ploying fact based measures of programs to 
make improvements; 
(H) improving the accessibility of benefit 
and social services programs, reducing the com-
plexity and difficulty of enrollment, and improv-
ing the rates of enrollment in need based pro-
grams for all eligible recipients to maximize the 
impact of benefits and social services programs 
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on reducing the impacts of poverty and improv-
ing economic outcomes; 
(I) making more uniform eligibility re-
quirements to improve the coordination of serv-
ice delivery, reduce gaps in eligibility, and im-
prove outcomes of programs addressing poverty 
in the Federal Government; 
(J) reducing the negative impacts of asset 
limits for eligibility which impact Federal, State 
and local poverty programs on the effectiveness 
of programs where limited eligibility creates 
gaps in necessary service and benefit delivery, 
and restricts access to benefits as individuals 
and families attempt to transition off of assist-
ance programs and which can prevent needy 
beneficiaries from improving long-term out-
comes and achieving long-term economic inde-
pendence from need based programs; 
(K) identifying Federal programs, includ-
ing those related to disaster relief, hazard miti-
gation, extreme weather and climate change, 
and necessary reforms to better target re-
sources towards disproportionately impacted so-
cially vulnerable, low income and disadvantaged 
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communities may provide greater socio-eco-
nomic benefits; 
(L) improving the ability of community- 
based organizations to participate in the devel-
opment, oversight and implementation of Fed-
eral poverty-related programs; 
(M) improving access to good jobs with 
adequate wages and benefits by individuals liv-
ing in poverty, low-income households, and the 
unemployed; 
(N) expanding and stabilizing poor and low 
income persons connection to work and access 
to critical job training and/or skills upgrade 
training that will lead to re-entry in the work-
force; 
(O) developing a comprehensive strategy to 
connect low-income young people and to re-con-
nect currently disconnected youth to education, 
work, and their community; and 
(P) shifting the focus of poverty and 
means tested programs across the Federal Gov-
ernment beyond the relief of deprivation and in-
stead setting goals, measures, and outcomes 
more focused on measuring the success of pro-
grams in supporting and improving how capable 
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individuals and families can access educational 
and economic opportunities to successfully tran-
sition away from accessing public assistance 
and benefits and achieving long-term economic 
stability which will reduce long-term costs in 
domestic social needs programs, reduce long- 
term health care costs due to the improved 
health of formerly poverty stricken households, 
increase the number of taxpaying individuals 
which will increase revenue, and lower the en-
rollment and costs in need based benefits and 
services programs, thus improving the economy 
and reducing long-term deficits for Federal, 
State, and local governments; 
(2) oversee, coordinate, and integrate all poli-
cies and activities of the Federal Government, in co-
ordination and consultation with the Domestic Pol-
icy Council and the National Economic Council, 
across all agencies relating to reducing the number 
of individuals, families, and children living below the 
Federal poverty line, in extreme poverty or near pov-
erty and increasing the number of households able 
to achieve long-term economic stability with assets 
sufficient to maintain a decent living standard with-
out relying on public supports— 
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