Is there poverty in america?

Question

i know there is, in the big cities. but what about the midwest, the south, america's heartland?

any links? pics?

like deep down poverty. no food to eat /clothes to wear?

Answer 1

Yes, there is poverty everywhere these days, although some folks remain untouched. It seems the rich get richer and the poor just keep barely holding on...

I know that the housing agencies and food bank serving our midwest town are busier than ever. Costs of housing and transportation are soaring. The jobs out there are primarily minimum wage--and few have health benefits with them.

Answer 2

yes, I was a social worker before I became a stay at home mom and I can honestly say that poverty is everywhere. There were days that I would drive past neighborhoods that housed families of middle to upper class incomes....and within 2-3 minutes be at my destination of a home/shack without running water. I live in the Heartland.

Answer 3

Absolutely! I will say that at being in poverty in America is a little more hopeful than being in poverty elsewhere - there are at least social services available here. If you want to find a lot of poverty in rural America, my husband is from New Mexico, and there is a TON of it there. Big families living in little trailers set on ponds of their own sewage . . . same sort of story on the East Coast in little backwater towns in the Appalachian Mountains (places like Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee). And Native Americans on the reservations in the Plains states and the Southwest. And the Mississippi Delta.
Links/pics:
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Topics/view.asp?T=104010
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Amberwaves/September03/Features/NonmetroPoverty.htm
http://www.asbj.com/2005/04/0405coverstory.html
http://www.american-pictures.com/gallery/usa/index_rural_indoor.htm
http://rhost1.zfx.com/OZXmp/asphome/?BISKIT=1505654979&CONTEXT=cat&cat=184
http://encarta.msn.com/media_701508416_761570777_-1_1/Reservation_Housing.html
http://www.thatsalabama.com/foodforthought/employment/
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.com/Po/Poverty.html
http://www.gallupindependent.com/1999-2001/11-24-99photos.html

To find more pictures, go to Google Images and type in something like "Midwest Poverty" or "Poverty in America" or "Rural Poverty in America"

Answer 4

It depends on what you mean.

The government regards whomever is in the least wealthy 20% as being "poor" without regard to their actual situation.

The notion that there is widespread poverty in the United States is a political fantasy created by manipulating statistics and/or failing to define what is meant.

So, for example, the average "poor" person in the United States lives in a house of 1100 square feet but that is larger than the house than an average European lives in. Does that man that all Europeans are poor? Of course not. But it suggests that being "poor" in the USA means something very different than being poor in Calcutta or Moscow or Beijing.

This is not to say that there aren't people who live in miserable conditions in the USA but, for the most part, they do so because they choose to spend their money on drugs or alcohol and/or they are mentally ill and refuse treatment.

Answer 5

There's no poverty in America. The government pays those bums to sleep on the street.

Answer 6

yes there is. in some areas of the south the economy is bad, because of a lack of industrialization. people don't make a lot of money. jobs there can be scarce, unless you drive a truck or work away from home.

Answer 7

Yeah...just spend some time in the backroads of West Virginia, Kentucky and Southwest Virginia. You'll find what you are looking for.

Answer 8

well, hmmmm, let me think, yep. Poverty is in every corner of American...sorry America to shatter our image.

Answer 9

surely not if the u.s. government can afford to spend trillions of tax payers money on defence - because they have retarded foreign policies- then surely every American citizen is living a luxurious life.

Answer 10

yes - in any free market you have the undesirables which live in poverty