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• Sarah Palin has been a firm supporter of the Salvation Army
and as a result has not only provided them with recognition but
has also encouraged charity to the organization as a whole.
• Through her various statements, Sarah Palin feels that
although there is adequate funding for faith-based initiatives,
the municipal revenue should be shared between the states so that
each of the local areas can attend to their own priorities.
• In her opinion, there should be a rural energy plan which
should be established and followed by each of the states.
• One of the points about which Sarah Palin has been
particularly vociferous throughout her campaign is the Earned
Income Tax Credit, also known as EITC. According to her, since
EITC is a work support program for low-income families, people
who are qualified must put in their applications and avail the
various benefits. It is on her initiative that thousands of
welfare recipients were incorporated as a part of the active work
force by the EITC.
• Sarah Palin has categorically stated that she opposes actions
which cut off Alaskans from the American Fisheries because of the
fact that today many coastal villages depend on commercial
fishing as the main economical activity.
• Her support for the Salvation Army springs from the fact that
it is an organization which is deeply rooted in the region's
history and has served people not only in the region but all over
the world. It is in recognition of their efforts that Sarah Palin
has proclaimed the celebration of Red Kettle Day in Alaska and
has also urged with the people of Alaska to support the Red
Kettle campaign.
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• During his campaign in 2008, Barack Obama voiced a firm
commitment to reduce poverty by announcing that it is through the
conjoined efforts of everyone involved that poverty could be
reduced to half its actual figure during the next ten years.
• Assigning poverty the status of being a national priority,
Barack Obama has supported the introduction of a new Federal
measure of poverty which is supposed to be more accurate and
helpful in tackling its after-effects on the following
generations. Hence, the modern guidelines of federal poverty are
meant to reflect the costs of living and study the various
sources due to which the American families face economic
pressure.
• In order to translate his statements to reality, Barack Obama
outlined a plan consisting of various proposals in a bid to fight
rural poverty. Some of the salient points of his proposals were
development of telecommunication technology in rural America,
improving the infrastructure by investing in water and sewer
system and building small city airports.
• In his urban poverty program, Obama vowed to create twenty
dream neighborhoods in various cities across the country based on
the lines of the Harlem Children's Zone in New York City.
• The urban poverty program has also been designed by Obama to
fight concentrated poverty in American cities by creating more
economic opportunities, recruiting more teachers and making the
profession of teaching attractive by augmenting the salary and
providing support services.
• A noteworthy proposal made by Obama in the direction of
reducing urban poverty was the creation of 'Affordable Housing
Trust Fund' as a result of which 112,000 new affordable units
would be added in the mixed income neighborhood.
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