The problem of America's ghettos is a complicated one, indeed. I think it's a fool's errand to try, as so many people do, to find a root cause of why inner cities have degraded so sharply in the last half century. However, I think fixing them is easier than almost anyone seems to think. To me, the easiest and most logical, and probably most impactful, thing that we could do to address inner city poverty and decay is to have a new New Deal that is city-centric. The New Deal focused largely on rural areas, because they were the most impoverished at that time. Now, infrastructure is shit, trash is strewn in the streets, and people are jobless in the ghetto. Why not pay anyone who wants a job a wage to clean the place? Mow lawns, pick up garbage, deconstruct abandoned houses, landscape lots, etc. At $10/hr, I think there would be no trouble attracting people in all the country's ghettos to sign up. There's no dignity in the ghetto; that's been my observation from living in one for most of a decade. Employing people while sprucing the place up would be a great way to bring some back.