Poverty is a criminal offense in America.

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And I really think that you do have it better than on other places on earth. This whole stuff about uniting the worker class has already been said.
Being a "worker" is not really much of a uniting concept. Its also not much of a concept that decreases the apathy of the people, nor social-awareness.

So I think that you have it all wrong. You're instilling nothing into the people that would want both the workers and the employers to provide for a better country for all.
The fact is, your country is built on money, and the promise of wealth, dreams of wealth, and opportunity. How else can you actually put the 72 nations of the world under a single roof? Of course with the promise of money and opportunity.
So even I can come with my degree, which is actually a useful degree on engineering, with a few connections in the Turkish diaspora, and find myself a better job on a better salary and live a better life than the lowly American worker that has lived and worked there all his life long.

So you might want to check into the whole concept of who is an American and whom the people should actually care for. Me?
And why should I care for them? I came to the US for the opportunity to work. I pay taxes. And the less I pay, the more I'm happy, and I really ought not to be worried about the poor that I have no connections to.

In short, you need a uniting concept. Communism and socialism are not such concepts, as they too have their basis in materialism. But it must be something that is built on a uniting consciousness and identity, something very idealistic.