In the article, the writer discusses the issues of poverty in urban communities and starts off the article by asking an important question – is more federal aid needed to eliminate the war on poverty? The number of high poverty urban neighborhood has tripled over the years targeted both Black and Hispanic individuals. When urban communities suffer from high-poverty rates this creates barrier for success in the population and limits the amount of access to education, job opportunities, and wealth. Instead this increase the amount of gang productivity, incarceration rates, high school dropout, and teen pregnancy. While reading the article, I learned about that in a study of the “prison-to-poverty” cycle that the percentage of African-American
