How could Mississippi get out of poverty?

[NeverAgain]

Long-term - Increase in Education Funding, An Infrastructure program that supports failing roads and improves dated ordinances and codes. (It also will give a HUGE amount of jobs, albeit temporary, jobs nonetheless)

Short-term -Expansion on Free (healthy) school lunches, a housing program similar to Salt Lake City's model, and to bring and expand upon ACA.

For the Dems who are saying f**k Mississippi, they only vote Republican anyways. MS will be in our control and our problem in the next couple of years.

That's what makes me mad about politics sometimes. The whole 'they won't vote for us so we shouldn't help them' mentality is so flawed. Instead of looking at people as numbers, as voters, we need policies and leaders who approach people as people. Bring humanity back to politics. Struggling families ought to be helped, no matter who they're going to vote for.

Amen! It's funny because the majority of people on welfare/food stamps are lower-class white families who then pull a 180 and vote for someone who will cut their benefits. Agreed completely though, recently this has been about who will vote for me over doing what's best for the country. We need to get back to what our country was founded on, Unity. Something we haven't seen from either party recently...

[Hydera]

Unless you want to waste money by allocating more tax dollars down the drain to mississippi.

promoting manufacturing there is a no-no since it has been declining nationwide for a few decades due to outsourcing to Asia.

Finding a niche like Tech is hard since the atmosphere there isnt something that would be favored by foreign skilled immigrants.

The only thing that can be tried other than pouring taxdollars to a waste there to artificially prop up living standards. is to turn it into another Arizona.

Mississippi has quite lower prices and cost of living that the rest of the country. This will not pull the state out of poverty as rapidly as people want. But encouraging olderfolks to move down there and creating demand for real estate. Would surely bring $$$$ to the state.

Mississippi has a state government that has been trying hard to encourage businesses to move down. But their held back by perceptions+atmosphere of the state(And in which i mean security, how people act, how the ultra religiosity of the state makes people uncomfortable. etc etc etc).


Sucess isnt created in a short period of time. Atlanta was a railroad hub back when railroads was booming. Its now a very insignificant industry overall. But Atlanta became a huge center for services ever since the 1800s. Growing with suburbanization and highways after WW2. Only because of railroads was it all possible. Nobody has patience for even a few decades so might as well leave mississippi as it is.

[Maxwell]

abolish capitalism

Welcome back comrade!

[TNF]

abolish capitalism

What a nonsensical post with or without context.

Not really, given that the capitalist system requires a reserve army of the unemployed to function and if you abolished it in favor of a democratically planned economy, no one would literally vote to continue being poor while a bunch of useless morons have millions of dollars for no reason (e.g. people like the Kardashians)