Sarah Ampadu Final Blog

In the book, homeless individuals are faced with a type of discrimination and a poverty herbal that is hard to come out of.  The definition of the word homeless is ‘an individual who sleeps in various shelters’ and an ‘absolute homelessness’ person is defined as individuals who sleep outdoors or in other places not intended for human habitation (Ramin & Svoboda, para. 2, 2009)”. What people forget is the fact that many children and teenagers are facing homelessness. The system that the US has for DCFS and Foster care is the most corrupt system in the United States. Many children rather be homeless then stay in the system because they are either being token advantage of or are stuck in unhealthy and dangerous situations, and the people that are suppose to be protecting them are doing them the most harm.
         In urban poverty it usually occurs in cities on the poorest sides where crime, budget housing, less opportunities, poor health outcomes and underperformance schools reside The part about the author explaining the cycle of oppression that the government puts us through is what really stood out to me the most. In the Abramsky, it discusses how peoples lives don’t get any better because of how the government runs things. the government is supposed to assist us in making life better for us. They sell immigrants that American dream is easily obtainable, however, that is not always the case, as we know. The USA tried to distract us with poverty in other countries (such as Africa) through ways of making it seem as if they need assistance very bad, however, they forget that in there own back yard, poverty, food desserts and oppression occur every second of the day.
          Programs descrded such as earn and learn that started in michigan assist in strenghining the community through improving skills and driving the interest in learning vocational and labor trades in immagrants or anyone in the community looking for these programs. With these tools descrided in the book, more individuals would be eligible to find quality labor that will adquetly assist them in prodiving for their families and also contribute to a prsitive social economic and local economic.

Ramin, B., & Svoboda, T.(2009). Health of homeless and climate change. Journal of Urban Health, 86(4), 654-664. doi:10.1007/s11524-009-9354-7. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704276/

Abramsky, S. (2013). The American way of poverty: How the other half still lives. New York, NY: Nations Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group.

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