• 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.
		

• 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.