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The American Prospect is a "liberal intelligence" publication that posts articles about worldly and national issues to spread awareness in order to help attain a more just society and serve the greater good of the public. This article in particular focuses on different reasons for Americas poverty issues including low wage work and little to no work. It also points out the steady decline in Americas poverty levels since 2000.

This website link takes you directly to their article on poverty in America, but by going to the home page there are other articles on social justice issues. This site gives statistics to the problems to show the severity of the issues.

Poverty has been an ongoing issue for years. The United States poverty level dominates many other wealthy nation's levels. It may be worse than what statistics show.

This article gives a enhanced look into poverty in America, with many statistics. It also covers the connection between poverty and other social issues such as health, food, and crime.

Very good article

This website provides statistical data about the amount of people living in poverty in the US. It also provides information of how many aides we have assisting those in need.

This article explains the levels of poverty experienced in the United States as of 2016. It explains the % of Americans with disabilities living in poverty, as well as the races that are most impacted.

This article speaks on the rising number of poverty in the USA. It goes on to explain who it is affecting as far as gender and race.

United States poverty rates have not made any significant changes despite growth in GDP per capita. Four determinants of changes in poverty rate are discussed and evaluated in this article. The four determinants are the impact of labor market opportunities, the role of changes in family structure, the role played by government antipoverty programs, and the role of immigration.

This article discusses food insecurity in America and how the prices of food affect the population. It also talks about the problems of people who are unable to use federal aid.

I picked a smilier topic relating to the food insecurity and poverty. The article helps out in giving us statistics about what is happening in the world and exactly how certain peoples health is being affected.

This article explains the growing crisis of house affordability. One reason why is because of the increasing poverty in America.

Why should an individual worry about the next time they are going to eat or shower is? There should not be as many people as there is living in conditions like this. Someone should have a secure place to live, food, and somewhere to shower.

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 talks about homelessness in a America and how bad it's been getting throughout the years. It explains how the majority of the people on the streets are around the age of fifty.

An organization based out of Australia that helps poor countries to provide clean drinking water. Underlies the importance to global health thru clean water.

What a great organization! Water sanitiation is something that we take for granted here in America, it's easy to not think about the other countries that have clean water.

this website discusses several issues but this link actually takes you to the issue of unsanitary water. This caught my attention due to the fact that so many countries do not have this luxury that we do. Clean water is commonly overlooked in our society.

Funding in high poverty areas were hit hard by budget cuts in recent years, getting less and less money, leading to things like teacher layoffs, reduced services and more. If the government followed the Every Student Succeeds Act, high poverty schools could get more funding towards their students futures.

The cost of living increases while wages do not reflect the same. A person working for minimum wage isn't likely to afford a place to live with essential needs to also survive or merely just a place to live. The question remains is this keeping the US in poverty and depending programs to survive.

minimum wage has always been a huge topic for many hardworking Americans. I agree that the cost of living has increased due to the coivid 19 outbreak. yet our minimum wage remains the same leading to many Americans not affording the cost of living.

I agree that we need to protect the impoverished and the working class by raising the minimum wage. It is important to acknowledge that cost of living is going to follow the wages as it always does. If we want to truly change things for people with wages, then we need to establish a consistent cost of living to accompany the minimum wage.

Child labor is one of the common issues in the world. Children loose childhood to work for food.

children should not have to work all they should do is worry about going to school. parents and people who should be taking care of them need to be held countable. children are loosing out of a lot of thing because of this/

Christos Makridis, the author of this article, through his research has discovered that raising the minimum wage does not improve the issue of inequality in America, but that it has a negative impact on the workers it attempts to help. The author explains this negative impact by giving examples such as employers reducing hours which causes a lack of skill development due to lack of hours, also employers will not be able to have many incentives for new employees. The author suggested ways for reducing inequality in the latter half of his article by giving business more freedom in determining the wages and that businesses would educate their employees in an effort to increase their profitability and thus raising the wages of their employees.

Homelessness is an issue for nearly a million people in America. There are so many factors that lead to homelessness that is is difficult to create an all encompassing solution to the problem. What is known is that once a family becomes homeless it is extremely difficult to get them back into rental housing. This is why programs like housing first as so important.

This article provide 9 different way someone can become homeless. It is only getting more difficult for people to avoid going homeless. Growing gaps between affordable housing costs and income is the leading cause to being homeless.