1 B) Article Reflection
The article "How Poor Are America's Poorest? U.S $2 A Day Poverty In A Global Context."was a very interesting read. It thoroughly educates the reader on not only poverty in our country, as well as the governmental flaws regarding this growing issue. I found it very interesting how the article posed the problem of defining poverty. Poverty is measured in a variety of ways depending on the country and many other factors. Other factors include how exactly it is measured. This is a concept I previously had not considered in such depth. The article educated me on how the methodologies for measuring poverty differ as well as how reliable these measurements really are. It suggests we must define poverty first and this would allow a fair comparison. Poverty is something that has always been discussed in many of my course but prior to this article I did not place that large of an importance to defining the term and analyzing how its defintion is working against the issue instead of alleviating it.
A secondary point of discussion that was of great interest to me from this article was referencing the global context. The United States is a country known for its possibility of success, however this article brought to light that is is also the country with the highest inequality. Per my social, class, and gender course, this topic was discussed as well. If we look at the amount of debt this country owes for wars versus the amount of funding they provide to alleviate issues such as poverty; the gaps are large. The article listed numerous countries such as Russia, Jordan, Albania, Argentina, Thailand and China, in which this country provides American Foreign Aid. This was baffling to me because upon some basic research, it appears as though some of the countries America assists have lower poverty rates yet are recipients of aid.
Article: Chandy, Laurence, and Cory Smith. "How Poor Are America's Poorest? U.S $2 A Day Poverty In A Global Context." Aug. 2014:Print.
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