This paper presents a multi-pronged strategy for reducing poverty and unemployment by increasing the number of jobs for unskilled workers and raising their wages. The first component of this strategy is a marginal hours employment tax credit, similar to the recently enacted New Jobs Tax Credit. This would serve to generate an expansion in employment. The second component entails the distribution of vouchers for both training and employment. These vouchers would be given to hard-to-employ workers, such as veterans, the disabled, high school dropouts, ex-convicts and ex-addicts. They would, when turned over to the employer, result in the government sharing the initial year's wage costs with the employer. Families with children would be brought out of poverty by the third and fourth components of the author's proposed strategy. These are: the guarantee of an at least minimum wage job for every family's primary wage earner, and a family wage rate subsidy conditioned on family size that would raise the earnings of low wage workers with large families. (Author/GC)