Statements that are controversial and made me think was the statement, "People who are poor are responsible for their poverty", (ICPH, Uncensored, 2013, p. 2). People make choices in their lives and like a puzzle we continue to connect the pieces until we get the picture we desire. However, each person has their own story to tell and face life as best as they can. I do not believe poverty is ever foreseen in the future but we can fight to become productive.
The e-newsletter adds to my understanding that politicians continue to battle over issues such as unconscious racism as it relates to employment, investing in childcare, and the fact that the United States has the highest child poverty rates in the world, "Nearly 50 million Americans are poor right now in 2013", (ICPH, Uncensored, 2013, p. 1).
Another insight that interests me on the web site titled, Web- extras: Hope behind bars, which focuses on assisting women in prison due to hardships in life and helping them reenter society through programs such as "A New Way of Life Reentry Project where women earn their GED and hopefully gain employment and reconnect with their children and families from which they were separated due to incarceration.
References
Brown, S. (2013). Uncensored: Web-extras: Hope behind bars. Retrieved from http://www.icphusa.org/webextras/iHomele
Uncensored: Institute for Children, Poverty, & Homelessness: Tackling poverty: Excerpts from a panel discussion hosted by city limits and icph. Retrieved from http://www.icphusa.org/
People wh. o are poor are not always responsible for their poverty. Let's take the example of individuals who were professonals in comfortable jobs, who now have to flee their countries because of wars or other political reasons. They eventually end up in refugee camps and in situations of extreme poverty that they had never envisaged.
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ReplyDeleteI can see where that statement that "people who are poor are responsible for their own poverty" can raise some feathers. I would venture to say that the person who made the statement has not experienced any sort of poverty in their lives nor those they are close to. Yes, there are some people who make bad choices and the consequences of those choices results in undesirable outcomes and once in a situation, for some, it's very difficult to recover. Compassion and action is what we need in this society.