Awareness Of Poverty In New York City

Many individuals all over the world are affected by poverty. In order to completely understand the cause, the effect, and the solution to ending poverty, we must first understand the meaning of poverty. Poverty is the condition where an individual’s basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter are not being met (business dictionary). According to the World Bank Organization, poverty is also the lack of healthcare, education, information, and jobs. There are two general types of poverty: Absolute and Relative. Absolute poverty occurs when individuals cannot obtain adequate resources to support a minimum level of physical health. Relative poverty occurs when individuals do not

Poverty, the state of being extremely poor, exists all over America! There are several different types of poverty, and the causes of poverty. Most people think of poverty as just somebody who is homeless and has no job, somebody who has no money to support the basic needs of life, and wears ragged clothing and lives under a bridge. What people don’t know is there are people living in poverty that have jobs and make money but live so poorly that they are categorized with people that live in absolute poverty.

The view that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer has been heard repeatedly in reference to America’s income inequality. Though ironic, it comes as no surprise that America, a continent that easily trumps other countries in terms of wealth would be affected by the issue of poverty at such high levels. While much has said regarding the poverty levels, many economists, educators and scholars feel that the income inequality in America may be the reason why it is difficult to live and maintain a middle class lifestyle or to rise out of poverty into the middle class in the current economic state. With this in mind, the only way America, has a chance of lessening or eliminating poverty altogether is by understanding how it exists.

Public housing is another program that helps to provide a roof over a family’s heads for reduced costs. Rent in some places can be quite high and a family of four may find it hard even to afford a small 3 bedroom house without breaking their pockets.

Words provoke preconceived ideas and images in the mind, when it comes to a situation like poverty these preconceived notions can have undesirable and unintended consequences. Diana George examines the semantics and the imagery of the word poverty in her article titled “Changing the Face of Poverty; Nonprofits and the Problem of Representation. While also addressing the issue of the perception poverty and what someone in poverty truly looks like (676). Prof. George is arguing that organizations like Habitat for Humanity, which are created to help people in poverty actually perpetuate the wrong image of what someone in poverty looks like (678). Most organizations created to help those in need, especially those in the US tend to portray poverty as what is seen and thought of as living conditions in Third World countries (683). In reality, poverty is all around each and every one of us in this country on a daily basis, and people might not always recognize it for what it is (681,682). Furthermore, the majority of people living in poverty in the United States do not live like or look like someone living in a Third World country. But in reality they are still living in poverty nonetheless (682,683). Organizations that portray people living in poverty here in the US as totally devastated and completely impoverished are doing a disservice to the people they are attempting to help. Consequently, by doing this they are giving a limiting idea of what someone living in poverty

Taken from The New York Times, this article titled “As Temperatures Plunge, Call to Keep New York’s Homeless Off Streets Has Little Impact” discusses the overwhelming issue of homelessness in New York City, and how proper solutions to this issue aren’t being made. Throughout the article, it is evident that lawmakers and politicians who are involved in this issue can “talk the talk”, however they have trouble “walking the walk.” With an issue as broad and pressing as homelessness, there must be organized efforts to ensure that those without homes have a place to stay while preserving their dignity.

America suffers great poverty despite being one of the most economically developed countries in the world. It has the highest social welfare spending per capita in the world (Rector, 2015). The issue of poverty in New York City is a fact that is not known by many since people view the city as a banking and business hub. However, almost half of the city's boroughs live in abject poverty. The poorest boroughs are Morrisania and Crotona where 44 percent of people live below the United States federal poverty level. In these two regions, two out of five residents are not employed ( Dobelstein, 2014). As a result, most residents have turned to drug use and crimes so that they can survive in the tough economy.

Thinking of Seattle, a few things come to mind; the Space Needle, big city, rain. And thinking of New York, a few things come to mind; the Statue of Liberty, bigger city, lots of people. Although these cities may differ on a few topics, one thing they have in common is their immense homeless issue. Both of these cities face the issue of homelessness and have struggled with this for years. However, their issue of homelessness differs in a few different ways; Seattle and New York face different levels of homelessness in terms of the homeless population count and they approach a solution to homelessness in different ways.

Over the decades, national and international organizations have focused on rural poverty without looking at urban poverty, which is the bigger challenge at the dawn of the century. It was not until the unrest caused by the misconduct of police in killing black men in Ferguson, Cleveland, Oakland, California, and Baltimore that the improvised lives of those living in urban cities came to light. Most of the minority groups in America’s big cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Kansas experience low education standards, unemployment, crime, urban diseases, high detention rates, and ghettoized housing patterns driving them to poverty (Lemons, 2015). In other cities in states like Florida, up to a third of the city population live below the federal

One of the most successful efforts to reduce and more effectively measure poverty is Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) in New York City. This paper will explain how the Center for Economic Opportunity was and still is so successful in combatting poverty and argue that its tactics should be implemented in cities across the nation. Poverty is one of the most important issues that the modern world has attempted to confront. For the most part it has been a huge success. Extreme global poverty has been cut in half in the past 20 years. This statistic is staggering, and not enough people realize how successful industrialization and the globalized world have been at eradicating extreme poverty. While this should be

In a city like New York City, that is a very congested area that causes pollution and has a lot of violence. As well as pollution and violence, there are a lot of homeless people out in big cities. People with no homes or no food go through a lot living on streets and imagine them inhaling all that bad chemicals around them without realizing. To me I would think homeless people are more prone to witness and experience crimes. Crime rate are probably really high in big cities, it’s not easy to find the criminals and police officers probably give up faster especially for something minor. A lot of people living there use a lot of the transportation. Buses, subways, and cabs, it’s a very fast moving area. So many vehicles cause a lot of pollution

The people of the city flaunted their extravagance and beauty both during the day and the night. At night, the rich and the more modest middle-class went out, enjoying the rave and the enchantment that was available to indulge in. But, where there is light, there are shadows and darkness. Just outside the city, residing in the outskirts in all directions, lived poverty. Poverty was painfully apparent then just as it is now, and, like today, it is overshadowed by fame and fortune. The immigrants, the poor, and the working class did what they could to survive, but their hard work was pushed away by the gleam and glitter of the city’s Fifth Avenue and

With such a high amount of social media users, teenagers can spread awareness about certain situations happening in the community and come together to make a change. For example, in Kelly Wallce’s article “The Upside of Selfies”, she mentioned, “kids…creating Rainbow Loom bracelets to raise money for cystic fibrosis, and taking "selfies" and using the hashtag #unselfie to promote awareness of "Giving Tuesday," the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, which is billed as a day to promote giving to others during the holiday season.” These teens were empowered by what they saw on their social medias and decided to join, increasing the amount of people aware of the situation. Social media sites such as instagram have a huge amount of followers. One single

I reviewed three scholarly articles on Instagram that were analyzed differently. Instagram is a social network application that is designed around photos and video sharing. Its community is home to 100 million users and has received over 1 billion photos. It is the largest image intensive app with 58 new photos uploaded per second. (Silva et al.) The article “Faces engage us: Photos with faces attract more likes and comments on Instagram” by Saeideh Bakhsi et al. focused on the photo sharing community of Instagram and explores whether images with faces attract likes and comments; “A picture of Instagram is worth more than a thousand words: Workload characterization and application” by Thiago Silva et al. researched the global coverage of Instagram through networks around the world; and "Shaping organizational image-power through images: Case histories of Instagram." By Brian McNely explained how vital the use of Instagram is for many organization to shape their public image.

Instagram is one of the most widely used mobile sharing app being used nationwide, it provides an outlet for individuals to express themselves. Instagram users utilize all sorts of pictures to show their personality and lifestyles. These people could be narcissist, extroverted, neurotic, or people who enjoy new experiences and have an open mind. It gives them a way to shine and a give a description of their lives. For some individuals, it can be complicated to put words to their feelings, but images help create a visual understanding to different lives and thoughts. Every human being is unique in their on way, the app presents an opportunity to express who they truly are. If someone is an avid traveler, posting pics of