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When you send $10 per month to a rural family in the Philippines, it buys them chicken and rice for a month. The folks in America making $8.50 an hour have cell phones, do they not? Do you know any specific person who cannot afford a cell phone?
In Sumner where I live, there are three food banks within walking distance of each other. The state of WA issues debit cards for free food also. Poverty in America isn't the same thing as poverty during the Great Siege in Russia during WWII.
None of which is to say we shouldn't do all we can to maximize OPPORTUNITY in America. That was the premise of the DOI.