Ya know, I tried for years to save enough money to go to college or trade school. I had to get a job right out of high school to help support my younger brother after my dad went to jail, and I also had to help my dad when he was out. Most months, after all that plus bills food and rent were paid for, I had between +/- $20 in my bank account. $1075/mo for a room in a 4br in a crackheads and armed robberies neighborhood when I was stuck making $1600/mo after 60-100 hour workweeks (no, I'm not making that up). There wasn't much room for me to do a damn thing about it. Especially considering the face that I also had to cover extra rent while we replaced a dead roommate who overdosed on heroin, twice in one year. I never touched the stuff myself, but it still affected me. That shit is everywhere, and it's incredibly sad.
My point is that it's not that simple. The solution is not "just learn a skill that pays", because you'll need certification, and certification costs money. And even trade school is insanely expensive in the states nowadays. Poverty in the US is a trap, because once you're in it, the only people who you'll associate with are in it as well, and lots of them will drag you down so they can get a little bit further ahead.
It literally made more sense for me, practically and financially, to use what little money I was able to save to go towards getting citizenship of an entirely new country so I could get the fuck out of the US. Took me about 7 years of hard work tracking down countless documents from foreign countries, and an enormous stroke of luck catching my employer stealing wages from me. I threatened them with legal action and they paid me, in full, everything they owed me (they stole about $8000 over the course of a year). That was my lucky break. Now I live in Norway, where I'm studying for free, working 2 days per week, and able to afford everything I could ever need. My rent is $950/mo for my own 1br place just 5 minutes outside the city with utilities included, and my hourly pay is more than double what it was in the US.
Bring poor in the US is fucked up, and it's INSANE how difficult it is to escape that when you have nobody to look to for help but yourself. Your callous views tell me you've never struggled like America's impoverished, and I hope you can take a second to think that your views might be wrong.