Every American Deserves The Chance To Pursue Happiness And Escape Poverty.
Our fellow citizens deserve an efficient, user-friendly, less time-consuming safety-net system that addresses their needs more holistically. The failure of government-run welfare programs to efficiently move work-capable recipients to self-sufficiency traps citizens in poverty.
Encouraging economic growth to ensure a robust economy may do more than any other policy to reduce demand for safety-net programs. However, we must have a workforce prepared to benefit from the jobs created.
Over the past four decades, the U.S. has expanded the criminal justice system, making it more punitive and relying on incarceration as the default response to crime. Now, the U.S. has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world.