Anyone with half a brain knows poverty leads to more crime, but how do you fix it?
IMO the way to reduce inequality is to provide less straight up benefits like money for food, housing, phones, children, and being poor; and provide free education.
I've seen people say we need to tax people like Bill Gates and Bezoes into the ground, but what would that help? It don't just have billions and billions in liquid assets. Most of their money is tied up in stocks. Even if you literally take away their stocks and give them away to poor people their stock value would plummet due to everyone trying to cash it out right away.
Taking away the prosperity of some people does nothing to improve the prosperity of everyone else. You need to lift people up, but to do that they have to be involved.