Reyes, Janella Patrizia R.

BSA
World Literature
PROPOSAL FOR GOVERNMENT
1. Develop industrial and service industries in rural areas, including the
encouragement of township and village as well as private enterprises.
2. Develop industrial and service industries in rural areas, including the
encouragement of township and village as well as private enterprises.
3. Assist the farmers in moving to urban areas to find work by reducing various
levies collected from them by city governments and by giving responsibility
to the latter for the training of the incoming farmers and for the education of
their children.
4. Carry out reform in rural areas including the tax system.
5. Continue to improve programs to reduce poverty by subsidies and other
means.
6. Creating good jobs. The president laid out several public investments and
reforms that would create millions of jobs. Unemployment is one of the
primary drivers of poverty and the president set forth a menu of solutions
such as investing in infrastructure and school repair, clean energy, and
manufacturing that will bring millions off the economic sidelines, grow our
economy from the middle out, and enable workers to earn good wages to lift
their families above the poverty line. Included in this agenda should be the
presidents Pathways Back to Work proposal, part of President Obamas
American Jobs Act, which would create hundreds of thousands of subsidized
and transitional jobs for low-income and long-term unemployed workers.
7. Raising wages. A good job is the lynchpin of any national strategy to cut
poverty in half. But as the president rightly noted, under current law, a fulltime worker with two children earning the minimum wage will still raise his or
her family in poverty. In fact, we havent raised the federal minimum wage
since 2007, and this basic wage floor has lost 30 percent of its buying power
since the 1960s due to a failure to index the minimum wage to inflation. The
presidents proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour and
index it to the cost of living would increase the wages of millions of low-wage
workers, and create demand in the economy for goods and services as
workers spend their increased wages in local businesses.
8. Training the next generation of workers. The president also recognized
that we dont just need to create new jobs, but we need to also train workers
to fill them. His proposals to better prepare high school graduates to compete
in a high-tech economy, equip students with the information they need to
make smart choices about a college education, and secure investments in
worker training, will help ensure that American workers are prepared to fill
the jobs of tomorrow.
9. Investing in children. Child poverty costs the U.S. economy $500 billion a
year. Conversely, investing in early education for young children is one of the

most important strategies to cut poverty, leading to outcomes such as better

high school graduation rates, higher worker productivity, and lower rates of
violent crime that yield $7 in savings for every $1 invested upfront in early
education. The presidents plan to provide universal pre-K would provide
millions of parents with a quality, reliable place for their children to thrive,
enabling them to work more or steadier hours to bring additional income into
the family, as well as create greater economic opportunity for their children in
the long term.
10.Strengthening families. The president also recognized the key roles that
families play in cutting poverty, offering solutions that promote more stable
and healthy families. The president called for passage of the Violence Against
Women Act, ensuring that more women are able to benefit from services and
reforms to flee abusive relationships, for example. He also proposed an end
to financial penalties for marriage in our public policies and for a greater
emphasis on policies that encourage fathers to take responsibility for their
children.