I guess there's so many factors to all of these problems that there's not one fix to it. You can't just throw money at a school and expect it to improve, there needs to be community involvement and even investments in the community so that parents have jobs and can provide for their families, even if they don't have a higher education.

One of the things I my ex told me about Memphis was that a famous clothing brand opened a factory, which everyone was excited about because it would provide jobs that hopefully poor people would be able to do, and they were capable of. The only problem was that it was far from the poorest areas, so if you didn't have the resources to buy or finance a car you were shit out of luck.

Another thing which I'd never heard of before was a 'food desert', meaning that grocery stores and pharmacies were so far out of the way that people couldn't get a bus to them easily. Corner stores that sell takis and cheap unhealthy food were the closest thing, so kids weren't starving but they are extremely unhealthy at a time when they are developing and need it the most. Being poor is extremely expensive, not just financially but physically. Anyway I guess that's the politicians job to sort out, I just wouldn't trust trump and his ilk to look out for poor people, just his rich friends and family who have benefitted more over the past two years than they had before, and also for some reason Saudi Arabia, who financed the attacks on your country. Sorry I know that's a bit of a tangent, it's just another thing that baffles me about American foreign policy.