poverty

Poverty in the United States is getting worse each day and not enough is getting done about it. The readings from “Babies and Benefits” by Sheila Holbrook-White, the article on poverty by Michael J. Paquette, and “Keeping Women And Children Last” by Ruth Sidel made me view the issues of poverty in a different way. I never realised what kind of people were living in poverty, and the true reasons why they are there. What …showed first 75 words of 1091 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1091 total…and these people would have suffered like this for nothing. Their examples should make a difference and change things. Our government needs to pay more attention to its needy people and do something about it. Bibliography 1) Holbrook-White, Sheila. Babies and Benefits. http:’’www.mindspring.com’-stanjj’babfac.html 2) Paquette, Michael J. 1998. Staten Island Poverty. Staten island Advance, 18 Sept. 3) Sidel, Ruth. 1998. Keeping Women And Children Last: America’s War on the Poor. New York: Penguin Putnam