Some tips on how to change crime or poverty in our country?​

1. Create jobs
2. Raise the minimum wage
3. Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit for childless workers
4. Support pay equity
5. Provide paid leave and paid sick days
6. Establish work schedules that work
7. Invest in affordable, high-quality child care and early education
8. Expand Medicaid
9. Reform the criminal justice system and enact policies that support successful re-entry

Hopes this helps

Increase employment. ...
Raise America's pay. ...
Sustain not cut the social safety net. ...
Paid family and sick leave. ...
End mass incarceration. ...
Invest in high quality childcare and early ed. ...
Tackle segregation and concentrated poverty. ...
Immigration reform.

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explanation:

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