Poverty in Michigan

In keeping with the topic of poverty, Michigan Radio political correspondent Jack Lessenberry did an essay on poverty in Michigan.

When discussing whether the poor can actually be helped Lessenberry writes: "I think some of that came from experiences people had during the War on Poverty. Some of the starry-eyed were disillusioned when many of the poor turned out not to have good work habits. They also tended to be lacking in social skills. Helping them proved to be harder than just finding them a job interview.
Well, guess what. Most really important things aren’t easy to do. If they were, someone would have done them already. "

More importantly, he writes about children born into poverty saying: "But there are more than half a million children in this state who are poor through no fault of their own. If we don’t do what it takes to help them, we aren’t even a good, let alone great, society."

Thoughts?