Being poor is not an excuse or reason to push your fucking agenda that's why the reason crime rate is the way it is. I grew up without two pennies to rub together, and I never committed a crime or needed to rob, hurt or steal from someone, It's just so fucking frustrating to sit here and read that you people have it all solved but but but their poor. No it's not a excuse or crutch.
If you're poor, and all your neighbors are poor, then you neighborhood isn't going to be pulling in the needed revenue for the schools and other local institutions and services. When you've got bad schools and a crumbling infrastructure, businesses leave, taking jobs with them. These neighborhoods with high unemployment and lack of quality education are perfect for criminal markets (drugs, prostitution, etc) to take root and flourish. The solution isn't to provide bootstrap instructions to the poor, it's to break this vicious cycle of poverty. Namely, fix the infrastructure and improve the schools, which would create jobs and better equip future generations for the working world.