No, it's hard to pull you out of poverty when leftists take all the money earned by hard workers looking to move up, and use it to restrict small business, and employment in general...while at the same time demanding more and more qualifications, trainings, licensings, tests, be required of the people who do the working.
Capitalism certainly doesn't create poverty. What a ridiculous thing to say. Look at the countries that have no capitalism. They are the ones where the kids die of starvation while sitting next to government food trucks full of food.
And we have free education including free college for the impoverished. They don't have to pay dick to get started. They do, however, have to provide a decent high school transcript.
If they can't even pull that off, then they are among those destined to be lodged permanently in institutions where they will be kept warm, and relatively safe, and fed, and the rest of us will not be burdened or threatened by them.