Did you know that according to the US Census Bureau, Detroit is the poorest city in America with one-third of its residents living below the official federal poverty level together with the nearly one-half of the city’s children live below the poverty line (the official measure of poverty; calculated to include incomes that are less than three times a low-cost food budget)? Did you know that 18,000 homeless people in Detroit are in need of shelter while three-tenths of them will be homeless for a long time, one-fourth of them being children? Did you know that 15,000 people in Detroit are either living in abandoned buildings, each night or they are living with their friends or families, 10,000 of the families here in Wayne Country will become
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I feel like the empowering issue of homelessness is not actually discussed as much as issues are being discussed surrounding the current candidates along with the 2016 election as a unit. Both poverty with homelessness can move hand in hand in terms of psychology as well as sociology. For me, I will only focus on the sociological aspects of homelessness, not so much in its psychological sense. There are questions that should be of main interest to the reader in addition to hopefully giving him or her a newfound sense of not only wonder, but of empathy, as …show more content…
The homeless are the “fallout” of our postindustrial economy (Henslin 275). Reading further led me to believe that they are part of a social class, known as the underclass. Welfare, food stamps, and food pantries are their main support. Later, there was a section that perfectly answers the question of homeless mothers entitled “The Feminization of Society”.
I have learned many times during the course of the completion of the project. What probably made this assignment slightly more difficult than intended for me was not only finding the right search terms to be employed, but also finding the right credible sources to work with. Through research, some of the answers in regards to a question a simple as what homeless was could much more likely be found via the operation of a dictionary. Naturally, I was never gaping for simplistic answers, but I was only
I feel like the empowering issue of homelessness is not actually discussed as much as issues are being discussed surrounding the current candidates along with the 2016 election as a unit. Both poverty with homelessness can move hand in hand in terms of psychology as well as sociology. For me, I will only focus on the sociological aspects of homelessness, not so much in its psychological sense. There are questions that should be of main interest to the reader in addition to hopefully giving him or her a newfound sense of not only wonder, but of empathy, as …show more content…
The homeless are the “fallout” of our postindustrial economy (Henslin 275). Reading further led me to believe that they are part of a social class, known as the underclass. Welfare, food stamps, and food pantries are their main support. Later, there was a section that perfectly answers the question of homeless mothers entitled “The Feminization of Society”.
I have learned many times during the course of the completion of the project. What probably made this assignment slightly more difficult than intended for me was not only finding the right search terms to be employed, but also finding the right credible sources to work with. Through research, some of the answers in regards to a question a simple as what homeless was could much more likely be found via the operation of a dictionary. Naturally, I was never gaping for simplistic answers, but I was only