Speak Up: What more should government do to combat poverty?

The Daily State News is continuing its Seeds of Need series about poverty in the First State. We’re reporting on how the General Assembly has taken steps to eradicate poverty, with bills addressing paid family leave and purchase of care. Also, we’re sharing a Wyoming woman’s struggles with increasing grocery and household bills, and how she’s trying to make ends meet. What are your ideas on how government can aid our poverty-stricken citizens?

• What more can government do to eliminate poverty? Quit giving them everything and teach them how to work! Remember the Bible story? Teach a man to fish, and he will never go hungry. Here is another suggestion: Pay the kid’s debt from college, and you are not teaching him to take responsibility for his actions or debts. That isn’t giving them a work ethic. — Pamela Warner