POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES
The United States of America began with poor, determined people who worked for promising future in the land of the free. Today the American
people have the same vision of living productive lives in the land of the free. We will always have poverty in our society, that will never change.
The important thing is how the American people, rich or poor, are treated and taken care of. Whether it is our neighbor, for profit or nonprofit
organizations, local government, or Federal government we all need to work together to alleviate poverty. Instead of looking down on the less
fortunate we need to help them live a comfortable life, treating each person with dignity and respect. Walter Trattner (1989) ends his exhaustive
survey of the history of the American welfare state by suggesting that "perhaps a time will come anyway when most Americans will
acknowledge-what our colonial forebears simply took for granted, namely that the poor will be with us, always, through no fault of their own, and
that they, too, have a right to a healthy, happy, and secure life." Whether the poor will ever be able to live "a healthy, happy, and secure life" in
the United States of America remains to be seen (Barusch, 2012).
people have the same vision of living productive lives in the land of the free. We will always have poverty in our society, that will never change.
The important thing is how the American people, rich or poor, are treated and taken care of. Whether it is our neighbor, for profit or nonprofit
organizations, local government, or Federal government we all need to work together to alleviate poverty. Instead of looking down on the less
fortunate we need to help them live a comfortable life, treating each person with dignity and respect. Walter Trattner (1989) ends his exhaustive
survey of the history of the American welfare state by suggesting that "perhaps a time will come anyway when most Americans will
acknowledge-what our colonial forebears simply took for granted, namely that the poor will be with us, always, through no fault of their own, and
that they, too, have a right to a healthy, happy, and secure life." Whether the poor will ever be able to live "a healthy, happy, and secure life" in
the United States of America remains to be seen (Barusch, 2012).