By killing off poverty it will create the ability to strengthen our communities and even start to help rebuild the society. So many people may not realize it but poverty cost Oklahoma billions of dollars each year, so if the nation decides to end poverty it will allow citizens to pay less in taxes that go directly towards programs and services that only benefit the poor, “as of 2012, the United States taxpayers have spent over $22 trillion on poverty programs” (Rector,2014) Also, without poverty our society will have more job opportunities, and less minimum wage jobs as careers and by the creation of more jobs, it will increase economic growth and productivity. Just think without poverty the entire nation education level will increase, there
