Mississippi Delta Poverty Analysis

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For example, Tunica County illustrated one of the highest percentage of families living below the poverty level of 50.5 percent, and the highest unemployment which was 17 percent, with the exception of Humphreys and Yazoo, all selected counties in the Mississippi Delta were marked by double-digit unemployment rates and high family poverty rates, from 27.9 percent in Washington County. Regardless, of how poverty is measured deprived people that deal with the challenges of being poor are more likely to have health issues. Good health is the key component of survival. This entire region of Mississippi is suffering from lack of education and high density of bad health. In the Delta, many residents do not have the income to afford proper health …show more content…
The purpose of this chapter is to also give an insight on how the government got involved to make a different with housing, education, financial assistance, and decrease the level of hunger. The chapter will include the laws that brought about changes in the Mississippi Delta and surrounding areas by late 60s and early 70s.
Chapter two and three, “Enduring Reality”, will explain the different factors that have driven the Mississippi Delta into poverty between the years of 1976 to 2000. It will also explain how during the early 18th and 19th centuries, the Mississippi Delta was observed as one of the most productive areas for cotton. Due to the fact, the land increases the amount of speculators to invest in different areas of the delta. Henceforth, these two chapters will give brief history of slavery in the Delta and how it brought upon segregation. Due to segregation, many could not overcome poverty. Nevertheless, chapter three will touch on the lack of education in the Delta and how many residents was more focus on achieving a better life through working than gaining an education. Chapter four, “Another Century of Persistent Poverty”, will describe poverty today, and how people are
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Poverty was well known by the 60s so the government aimed to decrease the amount of people living in poverty. The War on Poverty is defined, as the set of social programs enacted in 1964-1965 was arguably the most ambitious domestic policy initiative since the Great Depression. Our national poverty rate fell 42 percent during the War of Poverty, from 1964 to 1973. Some of the governmental programs that were utilized to suppress the level of poverty are the following: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

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