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Walouke A

Why can't people escape poverty? - 3 views

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    This is an article that came out March 30, 2010. A personal story about a girl coming out from college trying to find a way in this world. It also talks about the live's of black families and white families and comparing their wealth.
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    that was a really inspirational article...i hope more people realize that often it isn't the people's fault-they just weren't given a chance to start a new life without all that baggage.
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    Peterson's story was very sad but it was interesting too see that she used education as her solution. I hope that people who are like her read her story and use education as their solutions. If she can inspire me im sure she can inspire alot of people just like her.
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    Its so hard to escape poverty because they have to get a job. In this bad economy it so hard.
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    People ask why people stay in poverty for so long, and this article answers that question
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    I liked the last part that said with personal education comes, the need for others to be educated. I thought this was really good because it was saying that the first and most important step to helping others in poverty is to be educated well.
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    I think that it's really interesting that education is one of the big reasons people are in poverty. If we could give everyone a proper education, we could probably take a lot of people out of poverty.
Chapman M

homelessness - 0 views

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    this article gives ideas on how people can help people that are homless. after reading this article or even just the first paragraph that said that throughout the world there are people that are homeless. i didnt realize that even in lodon there are people that are homeless. i was shocked.
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    poverty is every where even in wealth city's people don't have homes
Shockley L

Statistics on Poverty and Food Wastage in America - 6 views

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    Includes many statistics, such as food wastage in America (over 100 billion lbs per year!) and poverty rate for children (55% for children under 6 living with a single mother!). I Found some of these statistics very surprising, but sadly, not unbelieveable.
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    I can't believe Americans waste about 100 billion pounds of food each year.
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    It's hard to believe that so many people in the world's richest country aren't always able to put food on the table. it is especially sad that so many children go to bed hungry. but i'm glad there are companies out there that help the hungry and supply them with food.
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    With the amount of resources wasted here, we can feed every homeless person! We're not very considerate...
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    wow thats really aweful how much we abuse our resources so badly, and yet not surprising like julia said
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    With the knowledge that so much of our food is being wasted, I wonder if things have been put into action to help this.
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    its amazing how unbalanced wealth is
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    What I found hard to swallow was that people wasted 14% of their food. That just strikes me as wasteful.
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    I think that 20% of people in the US who request food not getting it is crazy, especially in America where we have some of the richest people in the world.
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    This article gives information on Food wasage in america. It tels how much food is wated per year and how many people would have gladly accepted it. This article also gives some statistics on poverty in the united states.
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    35.9 million people in America live below the poverty line. About 100 billion pounds of food each year is wasted in America. Those living in poverty would gladly accept the food that would go to waste. Some families have to skip a meal or each very little becasue they can't afford to eat alot. In a house, about 14% of the food that is bought will be wasted. And around 49 million people could have been fed by that food. \nSeeing all of the wasted food and people that could use that food makes me want to find a way to save some of that food and give it to people in poverty. Also it's sad to know that there are alot of kids out there that live in poverty. If I were a parent it would be hard on me not being able to provide for my kids.
Bloom J

Bread for the world - 6 views

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    facts about hunger and how many people died a year and how to end hunger in the U.S and ways to stop it
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    It made me upset the nearly 16.7 million children struggle to put food on the table.
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    It made me upset that nearly one in four children live in households that struggle to put food on the table. It is very sad and depressing
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    it suprised me that only 13% of people in the u.s. live in poverty.
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    It surprised me that 26.9 percent of latino's have a hard time to put food on the table. I feel sad.
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    if america is one of the wealthiest countries we should be sharing the wealth instead of keeping it to ourselves. it surprised me that most people will go through poverty before they are 65.
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