As I have traveled around the country these past months, chronicling stories of hardship in 2011 America, three things have struck me with particular force:
The first is the sheer loneliness of poverty; the fact that poverty pushes people to the psychological and physical margins of society – isolated from friends and relatives, pushed into dilapidated trailer parks, shanties, or ghettoized public housing, removed from banks and stores, transit systems and cultural institutions. The poor live on society’s scraps – a few dollars in government assistance or charity, donated food, thrift store clothes. They can afford neither transport to venture out of their communities, nor simple luxuries such as movies or a cup of coffee with friends in a café, to vary the routines of their daily lives. Embarrassed by their poverty, many told me that they have essentially withdrawn from all but the most necessary, unavoidable social interactions.
Tags: housing, hunger
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Johnson Fabian on Thursday March 29, 2012:
I really like your impressions for poor peoples over the world. Yap many poor peoples are suffering because of finance and essential steps still not perfectly taken by government of every country. I feel very sad how reading the struggling peoples are doing around the world.
Adam Ghilchritst from 2200 East Elm Street, Tucson, Arizona 85719 on Tuesday April 3, 2012:
Here’s hoping this is a group which brings everyone TOGETHER towards the one goal of really helping the poor in Saskatchewan climb out of the hole we’ve found ourselves in over the last few years of so-called “prosperity”. Best of luck to everyone in this group and thank you for the work you’ve done already!
Steve Waugh on Thursday April 5, 2012:
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