What policies are aimed at helping the poor break out of poverty?
• Social policies are extremely important at promoting equality of opportunity. • Education, employment, health and housing policies are aimed at helping the poor break out of poverty. • Education policies have primarily been handled at the state and local level, but the national government has become increasingly involved in setting educational curriculum. • Universal compulsory education is considered the single most important force in the redistribution of opportunity in America. • The national government first got involved in in elementary education after the Soviet Union beat the U.S. into space with the launching of Sputnik. • George W. Bush greatly increased the federal role in education with the controversial No Child Left Behind Act. • Some reformers have pushed vouchers and charter schools as alternatives to public education. • Until recently, neither the federal or state governments were involved in providing health care. Today, the states and the federal government have bec
