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[quote=Anonymous]If we truly wanted to break the cycle of poverty in DC the city should focus on truly integrative services, where all agencies coordinate and track what's going on with poor families, with sharing of data across all agencies, whether school, housing, SNAP and other benefits, medical/healthcare/mental health, unemployment, domestic violence, and to have structured, coordinated intervention teams to work with them to get them to stay functional, reduce fraud, et cetera.  Those kinds of approaches sound expensive but have actually been more effective while reducing costs in some communities.  DC currently suffers from far too many disjoints.  Can't even get the 311 and DDOT people to coordinate on potholes.  Lots more that can and should be done - don't tell me it's "political suicide."  But unfortunately too much in DC is more about the old school Marion Barry way of doing things, and city jobs about "not my job, man" and tied to political patronage and union structures as opposed to actually doing what needs to be done.  But sure, just blame it all on "nimby libs" - the past 50 years wo[/quote]

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