I’ll add that this is not so much a partisan issue as it is an issue of severe income inequality.
Poor tend to stay poor when fewer resources are available for community support, infrastructure, and employment.
While we moved quickly into a nation of lower paying service jobs, neoliberalism reduced taxes on the very wealthy to further reduce government services.
“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is actually an impossible task.
“it used to be an insult. It was used to describe people who were basically delusional. It’s not something we think about much, but of course pulling yourself up by straps attached to your own feet is physically impossible.”
https://stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/families-community/2015-04-07/where-does-the-phrase-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-actually-come-from