If you believe that those born poor have to stay poor, Google Dave Ramsey. He has a proven formula taking people from less than poor to millionaire. He is harsh: no consumer debt, no 30 year mortgage, eat rice and beans, drive a $1000 car, live like no one else today, so you can live and give like no one else tomorrow. This isn't the anecdotal data of I know one, you know one, instead empirical data.
To those who think that taxing for providing education, I would point you to your property tax bill and your compulsory 12 years of education. We have already taxed, educated, and somehow the students weren't taught. A government that won't make a budget, that hands out $600 checks, that has shown its incompetence in everything other than blowing stuff up, when asked to solve this problem may try, but is not going to get it close to right.