Politicians have no motive to eradicate poverty. People out of poverty are less dependent on government therefore harder to control. It lessens government control and power. They will never knowingly relinquish control or power.
Obviously ... eradicating Poverty is NOT the goal of many of these law makers ... Their goal is to keep Corporations happy ... and keep their coroprate political donations flowing!
It is axiomatic that desire is a priori before anything can manifest in the physical world; when they DO NOT WANT TO DO IT, they make excuses; adept at MISDIRECTION! A form of deception in which the performer draws audience attention to one thing to distract it from another.
People that struggle daily in their lives are too distracted by their struggle to realize what's happening in their country.
Poverty, racism, debt, all these left-right issues distract all of us from the top-down issues created by our system and those who control the system.