Can software eat poverty? 60k spent per fam in poverty? Wth? (weeklystandard.com)

Sorry, I don't have a solution here. I just find it insane that we spend that much and the families we are trying to help get so little. I fully understand that a lot of people are getting paid along the way with that 60k, but most of those people could do other jobs as well.

Anyone have have big ideas on how to fix this?