The voucher thing has been creating interesting political bedfellows for quite a while now. Funny how incentives align sometimes. I'm mostly in favor. Some scholars have written that one of the biggest socioeconomic problems that exists today is extreme ghettoization. For example, things like this are happening, probably because the poor are so isolated that there's (literally) no way out. Literally, because they don't have any money to buy/fund a car, and public transport is non-existent in many inner cities. Therefore, the people that are born there are stuck there. It's terrible. It creates a situation where entrepreneurship not only doesn't exist, but can't exist, because there's nobody to buy your product or service no matter how good it is.

Sending kids to better performing schools (I know, I know, whatever that actually means) may be a way to bridge the ghettos with the rest of the outlying areas. People interacting with one another is what we need to combat poverty more than anything else. No amount of welfare or Medicaid or WIC can actually pull a class of people out of poverty. Only enterprise can. School vouchers maybe aren't a perfect solution to decentralizing our ghettos, but their perhaps better than any other ideas out there (direct payments to middle class people to move into inner cities probably works better, but we can debate the moral and social correctness of that).