Poverty In America Analysis

As a society when trying to control major economic or social issues that hold such a controversial affect the problems we see seem to never exclude. With an issue as notable as poverty it 's hard to define what exactly the issue is for the main reason is that people can find poverty in reference to almost anything. See what makes poverty; such a controversial issue is the fact that the issue will often be blamed on the same two systems time and time again. The issue is either blamed on the individual or the system. It 's a wonder to many why the issue isn 't better covered as a political crisis in today 's news, but the reality of it is that America seems to be more focused more on who the next political figure running for office …show more content…
Peter Edelman focuses on the issue of poverty in addition with race in his article “Poverty in America: Why Can 't We End It?” when he states in fact, that “Race and gender play an enormous part in determining poverty’s continuing course. Minorities are disproportionately poor: around 27 percent of African-Americans, Latinos and American Indians are poor, versus 10 percent of whites.” and he later goes on to state the fact that the wealth disparities are even wider. So when looking at the statistics it 's hard not to find a sense of disparity when looking in between the lines of the average upper class white …show more content…
When investment money is taken out of organizations the amount of money in which the community loses is greater than the amount gained by the so called embezzler. The horrible thing about this is the fact that people like this who are involved in high authority or who are considered as part of the government will never be prosecuted for these crimes, but rather they will be praised for their ‘overwhelming success and generosity’ that they give towards their fellow neighbors and