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Why is the US plaqued by the most severe poverty in any industrialized country? We have such immense wealth and resources can we not fix this problem? Our way of dealing with the poor is to look the other way and to say deal with it poor people, pull yourself up get a job, get over it don't worry about welfare just leave us alone. This attitude does little to stop poverty. Poverty in the US is not the result of our citizens being less motivated than other countries but that most of our jobs pay at poverty level wages or there are no jobs to be found. The US also fails to provide a universal health care system, affordable low income housing and a quality education for all. The results of these things are that it leaves alot of people left out in the cold. It is also no coincidence that the US also has the highest rates of incarceration, infant mortality and ill trained students. We as a country need to rethink what we are doing who we vote for and what we can do to solve this growing delima.
Kendra Chilton
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