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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.

Article stating statistics on children living in poverty. Discusses future chances of remaining in poverty and how this affects the child and our society.

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.

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The number of students who live in poverty is astonishing. Here, the National Center for Children in Poverty, provides these statistics and other publications relating to this travesty.

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.

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 is a commentary excerpt from a larger report about the crisis of education and how it relates to the average American woman and poverty/quality of life. Included within the article are interesting statistics based facts gathered from The Shriver Report.

This is a commentary excerpt from a larger report about the crisis of education and how it relates to the average American woman and poverty/quality of life. Included within the article are interesting statistics based facts gathered from The Shriver Report.

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.

The author, Michael Salesman, begins his article by giving an account of President Obama's State of the Union address, where President Obama was encouraging Congress to raise the Federal minimum wage. The author announces his disagreement with the President and then dissects the reasons why people are for raising the minimum wage. The author ends his article by stating that campaigns for raising the minimum wage should end because what that are advocating for goes directly against what they say they want.

Why are Black women over 3 times more likely to obtain an abortion than White women? Even though African Americans are only 12.6% of the population, they received 30% of the 1.2 million abortions in 2008 (latest available statistics), killing 360,000 Black babies at a rate of nearly 1,000 per day.

This article goes over why black women are 3 times more likely to have an abortion. In addition to that, it goes over why Planned Parenthood's are strategically place in black poverty neighborhoods.