Another thing that could be done is for the state government to allocate more money towards education, whether it is put into at the elementary level or to fund loans/scholarships for college students. It was said by Ziliack that not finishing high school puts you at a higher risk of going into poverty, and it has been said to high school students time and time again that furthering our education leads to making more money, lowering our risk of getting into poverty. The reason I think that funding education is would help is because I do believe that poverty in Kentucky is a symptom of a greater problem, that I believe to be education. As we know, some of the higher percentages of poverty in Kentucky come from the white, eastern Kentucky population. Alice Lloyd is someone who noticed that. If you are not familiar with Alice Lloyd, she is a woman who came to Pippa Passes, Kentucky to teach, where she believed some of the students were the best and brightest students in the nation, so she founded a college where the students in the Appalachian part of Kentucky could go to college for no charge and graduate debt free. This lead to opportunities of the people in the Appalachian part of Kentucky to emerge out of their family's possible tradition of working in the coal mines and into higher income jobs such as doctors. I believe that it would work the same way for people in poverty throughout Kentucky, whether urban or rural. This would allow people who's families have lived in poverty since their grandparents or great grandparents generation to emerge out of poverty.
Now those are just some options that we can try, as we have already attempted some solutions, one of them being the WIC program. Though the WIC program is a national program of supplements for women, infants, and children, Michelle Tooley said that it has been proven that spending one dollar towards WIC lowers the amount of money that is paid in health care, so this would help the problem not only in the state but in the nation as a whole.
