Welcome to our Poverty Series!

This month we are talking about poverty in America. We will be discussing homelessness and that crisis as well as how the American middle class has been squeezed nearly to non-existence. We’ve compiled facts, figures, videos, and stories that explain how we got into the crisis and how we might go about solving it.

Let’s dive in!

America is a very different place that the place anyone over 35 grew up in. Modern America is a country of temporary jobs, tent cities, working poor, and people with multiple jobs trying to stitch together an income. While some of these things are not new, the homeless have always been with us and working multiple jobs is not new, especially for young people, it has never been on this scale before. No one in this country is used to driving by tent cities alongside interstates. We aren’t used to cities that are dying before our very eyes and we aren’t used to seeing these problems right in front of our faces.

This week, we’re going to discuss poverty, the death of the middle class and how this all started.

The Problem with Poverty Begins at the Top