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In this site it is explained how plastic effects human beings, more so the poor. The poor are targeted by pollutants in the plastic that are burned in open incinerators. The effects of plastic is an issue not many of us consider because we all take recycling as a good deed but it is shipped to Asia where the poor is effected by pollutants.

Extreme poverty was at the highest in the year 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic millions of people lost their jobs and other things which led them to be poor.

The numbers here are staggering. It's heartbreaking how many people are suffering because of the pandemic.

It's crazy to see the amount of people who have been affected by this deadly virus and the situation it has caused. It should provoke the leaders of each nation to act and control the virus.

Education is the key to a better quality life in America. This is particularly important for our country's women because, though women have dominated our workforce, they are often set back by poor life decisions, personal crisis, or just do not have the resources available to succeed. The improvement of education will be a joint effort for everyone involved, including the individual, community, and government leadership.

Education is the key to a better quality life in America. This is particularly important for our country's women because, though women have dominated our workforce, they are often set back by poor life decisions, personal crisis, or just do not have the resources available to succeed. The improvement of education will be a joint effort for everyone involved, including the individual, community, and government leadership.

This article focuses on the interrelation between poverty and health. It gets into further detail about the reasons why people may become extremely poor because of their health situations. It also implements different solutions to help those who find themselves in situations like these.

This article gave me information on healthcare from a perspective of the people living at the poverty level. It focuses on how different strategies and projects made directly to change the affect of this healthcare system in its current status.

This article does well in representing how complicated poverty is. I liked how the authors showed how health care is a cause of poverty, and poor health care is also a sign of poverty. It goes to show the dual nature of many social issues and why solutions are increasingly challenging. The solutions offered by the authors look like they would be effective, but executing them might be difficult. It would be hard because these solutions are very general, and they would cost money as many of them require the government to force the cost of healthcare down.

This weighs the options of penalizing obese people ans well as smokers. On average they die 10 years faster than the normal person. It is something they feel against the poor. "Its not about their health its about everyone else"

On the surface, conservatism and Christian democratic thought are quite similar with regard to social welfare, but there is one key difference.  Following the Catholic teachings, Christian Democrats believe that the responsibility of taking care of the poor and needy lies with the community, not the government.  Both groups feel that lawfulness and stability are highly important, but they have very different approaches to achieve these goals.

This article briefly discusses on how in 2013 the Affordable Care Act was going to assist many poor families. It would help these families be able to afford better health insurance at a low monthly premium.

Thanks for sharing this. I was surprised with the percentages among minority groups as well as just the overall percentages especially in Texas. This author is really good because she is direct and to the point and has a very clever way of closing the article as well.

The jail conditions are really poor in Maricopa county. Some would argue that the conditions are unconstitutional. Rap by fellow prisoners or staff, beaten by guards, driven insane by long-term solitary confinement, or killed off by medical neglect. I understand that criminals shouldn't live in luxury but the conditions that Joe Arpio has the prisoners is not right.

Private citizens don't need ammo two or three years in the future.They need it at prices the poor and middle class citizen, who needs self-protection the most, can afford. We don't need single women being raped and murdered because they couldn't afford, or couldn't buy, ammunition for their personal firearm.

"Nothing in the Constitution guarantees our right to vote", states Politifact prize winning website. Even though the right to vote is most mentioned in the Constitution, legislatures around the country have been trying to deny that right to millions of Americans. Voter ID's are now being required, which basically is a law erected by the goverment to attempt to keep, the poor, elderly, and minority members of society from excercising their right to vote.

Article about a class-action suit against the cities of Mt. Vernon and Burlington (both in Washington) for failing to provide meaningful representation to poor defendants facing misdemeanor charges. The lawyers handled 1,000 cases a year, way more than the cap of 400 allowed annually. In result, they were spending less than an hour per case.

This article talks about a poor person's chance at justice. 2013 marked the 50th anniversary of Gideon Vs. Wainwright and sadly, most are no longer getting the fair defense Clarence Earl Gideon received.

This article discusses whether or not depression should be treated as a legitimate disability. Because of the complexity of depression, even people that are undergoing treatment struggle to be a good employee, and in certain cases, are even fired from their jobs because of poor performance that they had no control of.

This site talks about how everyone should be given safe drinkable water. Water is essential to human life and should be given access to anyone poor or not.

Clean water is crucial for human health and it is unfortunate parts of the world does not have access to clean water. Many pesticides live in ground water and in some countries this is the water they must use to wash clothes and do other important tasks with.

The gap between the 1% and the rest of the world is growing. The opinion that those that are in the top 1% have earned, and continue to earn that type of income. The reality is that research has proven this is not the case. Research has also proven that those who are not born to the upper class do not have nearly the same opportunities to succeed in life. The system is corrupt. The rich are growing richer off the work of the poor, who are becoming impoverished.

Groups from Alabama, New Jersey, and Los Angeles are battling commercial contamination in their neighborhoods. Most of these areas are inhabited with poor people of color who feel their civil rights are being violated. Sewage overflows, contaminated water, and air quality are just a few of the issues they are fighting.

In this site you'll learn about the parents who are living under dangerous conditions in the Bronx. Where 90% of families live in poverty and are expected to meet circumstances that most higher income parents fail to meet. These parents are being falsely charged with unintentional neglect.

It breaks my heart to read stories like these. Sleeping in a closet is just not normal and no one should have to live like that. I feel that not enough is being done to try to help those in actual poverty.

By looking at local property taxes, you can see that the education of the wealthier students if funded better than the poorer students. This has not gone unnoticed, even to the point of law suits, and yet still schools underfund the more vulnerable students and leave them unprepared for the future.

The poor schools in the United States; places like Illinois, Missouri, New York and Alabama, are not receiving enough funding to accommodate for their students needs. Things like high-quality teachers and educational equipment are even some educational courses cant be provided because of this.

The schools that get the least amount of funding should receive more support in helping students and their situations. Nothing will change if support isn't provided for low funded schools.

This article explains how the wealthy will choose better schools and leave the poorer disadvantaged students in poor scoring schools. This will cause even more segregation between the higher and lower class.