1. Create new job opportunities for low-income families such as a "green jobs program."
2. Improve the wages for low income families by raising the minimum hourly wage and reducing taxes for low income workers.
3. Help strengthen families by promoting responsible fatherhood (to ensure fathers who did not live with their children pay for child support) and increase medical care available to low income households.
4. Provide government support for affordable housing for low income families.
5. Tackle concentrated poverty by creating 20 Promise Neighborhoods across the country with extensive government investment in each of these communities.
Source: "Barack'08." 3 Apr. 2008. www.barackobama.com/issues/poverty.
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