Poverty in Ohio spreading and getting worse - 19 views
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Kelly S on 11 Jan 11Ohio has the top 3 poorest cities. i thought that ohio had tones of money before this came up. Its sad that Ohio can't help the people in those city. Why can't we lower the taxes or something like that to help the people that need it.
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Martin L on 11 Jan 11omg i did kno we were poor kinda ironic because we grow so much food!
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Buchbinder A on 11 Jan 11I was supried when i found out that the top 10 poorest cities, three are in Ohio are Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo. I meen those are mentioned all the time for art shows and cool events and to think that they are poor?!! wow!
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Semmelroth R on 12 Jan 11this article is about how 1in 5 Marion County residence went into poverty last year. and how bad the economy has effected Ohio
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Plummer H on 12 Jan 11i agree with adele about the cool events. I drive though cinncinati a couple times a year and i see the big stadium plus i have family down there who are dintist so i never would have thought it would be one of the more poor cities in ohio. I also can't believe clevland because its up by lake errie and i travle there too and i would think they would have more job opertunities from working the ferries or working at cedier point.But i guess thats why its so shocking to me.
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Foster H on 12 Jan 11it terrible that all of this is happening in the U.S but also in our own state, and in the cities around us. it was sad that even though people had a job, they were living paycheck to paycheck. Sometimes jobs help you, but sometimes they don't. nice artical ryan.
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Brown B on 12 Jan 11I never really thought that ohio had alot of poverty! I was suprised that Cleveland, Cincinnati. and toledo are listed in the top 10 of poor cities. I am hoping that we can whip this country back into shape before eerything goes down!
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Demmler A on 12 Jan 11this amazed me that no other state has more than one city that is in poverty. Coming from the state ohio, living in columbus, i had no idea toledo, cleveland, and cincinnati was in poverty.
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Borror D on 12 Jan 11This article is about how poverty in Ohio is growing really fast. I was pretty dang surprised at the numbers when the article told how fast poverty is growing. I think it's a really good 'cause there's a lot of good information!
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Haines M on 12 Jan 11This article really surprised me. I couldn't believe that Ohio has the most cities in poverty! I never really thought that our state was really poor, until I read this article.
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Hyre A on 12 Jan 11I always thought Ohio didnt have a lot of poverty, but that is just becasue I'm protected from it, so i never see it. this is a huge eye opener because even working families in Ohio arent doing well financially.
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Phillips L on 12 Jan 11It was shocking that Ohio has three of the poorest cities in all of America. That's like 1/3 of the top ten are where we live... Disturbing.
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Borror D on 12 Jan 11woah dude! I thought that we were kinda rich.... But I guess not o_O... nice article, I learned a lot!
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Baker M on 13 Jan 11I never knew Ohio was this bad. I thought Ohio was coming back but apparently not according to the stats.
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Sawyer T on 13 Jan 11I was very sad to read that Ohio is three of the poorest cities in all of America. It makes me feel to do something since I live around poverty. Very eye opening!
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Isaacson R on 13 Jan 11to be honest, it doesn't suprise me that Ohio has the top 3 poorest cities. Everyday I see people struggle.
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Kruzan A on 13 Jan 11I can believe that Ohio has the poorest cities, but yet it still suiprises me. Deep in your head you know that people are poor, but you don't want to believe it.
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Dendiu S on 13 Jan 11yeahh what rachel said. i mean even though i don't really see many people on the streets like you would in D.C. or chicago. but still it is very truee. :c
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Teets S on 13 Jan 11I never thought that poverty in Ohio was this bad. I guess I just hadn't opened up my eyes to the people who are struggling. To see that our home is riddled with hardship is not only sad, but it is a monumental weight on your mind.
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Chesser G on 13 Jan 11This doesn't suprise me. I see people on the street and in food banks.
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Smyth C on 13 Jan 11the highest number of poverty in 51 years? Wow the world really sucks today.
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Korn G on 13 Jan 11This is Crazy, In Marion The Salvation Army's food pantry served 1,020 This August. The number of people doubled from a year ago. This shows that more and more people need support, its sad
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Dendiu S on 13 Jan 11i agree with caroline. it seems like the world is getting more expensive how will we survive when we're older. the population is getting out of hands too.
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Walouke A on 13 Jan 11It's scary to think that Ohio is has more poor people in this year than last year. Hopefully, we can get reduce poverty levels in Ohio again.
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Sun K on 13 Jan 11i can't believe the sitaution is so bad, and how WILL we survive? (that was supposed to be in italics) it doesn't make sense-if the world becomes poorer and poorer, then the rich become fewer and fewer, and eventually it's going to snowball and just get out of control
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Strauss V on 14 Jan 11I was surprised to see the one of the facts said that poverty is a much more complex problem today than it was when the war on poverty began in the 1960s. I would have thought that that it would have gotten better because there were more jobs avaliable and more money. It would make sense to be bad in the 1960s because there werent a lot of jobs available. What if it keeps getting worse? What will happen in about 50 years from now? Will everybody be living in poverty? It would be helpful to find these answers out now.
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Reed E on 14 Jan 11I think this quote hits the nail on the head. "We're seeing a different wave of people using our health centers as the recession hits people in the middle class who have recently lost their jobs," - Julie DiRossi if the economy keeps tanking the way it has been the U.S is in trouble, the majority of this country is people in the middle class and if people keep losing jobs and not being able to build the econonmy up and its just a circling problem