Cycle Of Poverty
Effects of American Culture on the Cycle of Poverty
Poverty, which involved 43.1 million Americans in 2015, is directly correlated with race and gender in American cities (Kollar et. al.). As a result of years of discrimination and segregation, different American social groups have been unable to escape the cycle of poverty. Despite years of fighting for equal rights to make our country more equal, racial and gender disparities have persisted. Providing equal opportunity and trust to the people in need will make the United States a truly free and equal country. To lower the 15% poverty rate and to protect the futures of the children of the United States, measures need to be taken now to ensure that poverty is reduced and that citizens in need …show more content…
The concentration of the black lower classes in the poorer neighborhoods of United States cities is inhibiting economic growth in the community compared to white lower classes. According to a study done by the American Community Survey, a source for the United States census, “more than a third of all poor African Americans in metropolitan Chicago live in high-poverty census tracts… And [that number is] about 10 times higher than for poor whites” (Badger, Emily). The clustering of low-income Africans Americans will cause the poverty in that certain area to become worse because it seeps into the other aspects of their community, from schools to local stores. Therefore, they are forced to live in conditions that do not encourage growth, in contrast with neighborhoods with mainly white populations that have much more supportive conditions.. The low rate of social mobility in the USA also prevents people from being able to rise to a higher class, by keeping them stuck in the same one throughout his or her life. According to Howard Steven Friedman, a United Nations statistician and health economist, in a study done measuring the percentage of men that were born into the lowest economic bracket and rose to the highest “was 7.9 percent, far lower than that of other countries, where rates ranged from 10.9 percent to 14.4 percent” (Friedman, Howard Steven). This contradicts the belief in strong social mobility in the US, suggesting it may not take just hard work and persistence to raise social classes, as typically claimed by American society. Instead, social order is still determined by birth, though it is less obvious due to the indirect factors and large differences in wage gaps. In order to help eradicate poverty in America, it would be beneficial to integrate lower income households among higher-income areas in cities in
Poverty, which involved 43.1 million Americans in 2015, is directly correlated with race and gender in American cities (Kollar et. al.). As a result of years of discrimination and segregation, different American social groups have been unable to escape the cycle of poverty. Despite years of fighting for equal rights to make our country more equal, racial and gender disparities have persisted. Providing equal opportunity and trust to the people in need will make the United States a truly free and equal country. To lower the 15% poverty rate and to protect the futures of the children of the United States, measures need to be taken now to ensure that poverty is reduced and that citizens in need …show more content…
The concentration of the black lower classes in the poorer neighborhoods of United States cities is inhibiting economic growth in the community compared to white lower classes. According to a study done by the American Community Survey, a source for the United States census, “more than a third of all poor African Americans in metropolitan Chicago live in high-poverty census tracts… And [that number is] about 10 times higher than for poor whites” (Badger, Emily). The clustering of low-income Africans Americans will cause the poverty in that certain area to become worse because it seeps into the other aspects of their community, from schools to local stores. Therefore, they are forced to live in conditions that do not encourage growth, in contrast with neighborhoods with mainly white populations that have much more supportive conditions.. The low rate of social mobility in the USA also prevents people from being able to rise to a higher class, by keeping them stuck in the same one throughout his or her life. According to Howard Steven Friedman, a United Nations statistician and health economist, in a study done measuring the percentage of men that were born into the lowest economic bracket and rose to the highest “was 7.9 percent, far lower than that of other countries, where rates ranged from 10.9 percent to 14.4 percent” (Friedman, Howard Steven). This contradicts the belief in strong social mobility in the US, suggesting it may not take just hard work and persistence to raise social classes, as typically claimed by American society. Instead, social order is still determined by birth, though it is less obvious due to the indirect factors and large differences in wage gaps. In order to help eradicate poverty in America, it would be beneficial to integrate lower income households among higher-income areas in cities in