[George] Kaiser told the audience at Northwestern Oklahoma State University [that] sensory stimulation at the earliest possible point in life is the most important things we can do to provide equal opportunity in our society.... "[T]he purest form of charity is one which intervenes in the cycle of poverty at the earliest possible stage, through nutrition, health care and housing. Equal opportunity is really the social contract of life," he said. Kaiser watched in the 1960s as the U.S. spent trillions of dollars on the War on Poverty, but after 40 years he said poverty still is winning the war. Kaiser said we are dealing with the symptoms of poverty but not rooting out and modifying the cause, and each generation starts out about where the last one did.
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