World Systems @ KSU

This page has the ecomony of the United States wrapped all in one. It links current policy trends of solving poverty with social issues, buying or consumer trends, history in deficit spending by the government, and the assistance provided by the government. This site talks about the inequalities of the minium wage and other statistics that are linked to global poverty.

This image shows how poverty is more prevalent in single-mother families. This poverty rate is higher than all the people impoverished in the United States. The trace this chart from the Civil Rights Era. Although this has dropped, it seems to be on the rise again.

These bar graphs and other charts will show the significant difference in metro and rural areas for poverty in the United States. It also breaks down the demographics in race for those metro and rural areas for poverty.

This map breaks down the poverty in rural counties by race or nationality. African Americans have the highest number in poverty especially in the rural communities. Hispanics are the next, then Indians and I am assuming that Cuacasians stand for other. Irony.

This map shows that a county is considered to have poverty if their rates are 20% or higher in any census from 1970-2000.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines poverty according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Why aren't thier numbers matching. Health and Human Services has a lower dollar amount per family household than the Vensus Bureau. I think they are assuming that the average American works at minium wage and that is not the case. The only information that matches is that poverty was not even considered until the Civil Rights movement.

The U.S. Census Bureau defines poverty as as the size of the family unit and the dollar amount. If we look at the current trends, the U.S. Census Bureau recommendations is that a family of four is considered in a state of poverty if one person is working and bringing in less than 21,134. What's wrong with that picture? Is this assuming that a person is making above minium wage? The Global statistic says that 3 billion people live on less than two dollars a day.

Links the United States poblem of race, education, and poverty to a lack of accountability by the government. The government did not even recognize they had a proble with poverty until the 1960's Civil Rights Movement. The structure of the government still has some inequalities that deal with race and poverty.

More video clips on how Social Security, Education, Corporations, and Global Tax may be causing poverty through its infrastructure. This is an open forum by the World Economic committee.

This video gives shocking footage of how poverty also leads to epidemic and world wide spread of diseases. Poverty is linked not to just starvation, but to disease. Pay attention to how all of them use the same needle to medicate themselves.

Break down of how poverty affects education in Kansas. this website will detail building reports that enble a person to see how many kids live below the poverty level in each school district. This also shows how many kids are receiving free or reduced lunches. In addition, it show the testing average broken down by racial demographics and the graduation rate broken down by racial demographics. Education is tied to global poverty because students and educators need to find a way to help break the cycle so that many students do not follow the poverty footsteps of thier parents or guardians.