In the newspaper article “The Republican Party’s Strategy to Ignore Poverty” author and writer Eduardo Porter discusses some of the major issues of poverty that brings the state Arizona below the poverty …show more content…
Reading this article gave me another insight on how to look at poverty now. Before reading the article I just generalized poverty and thought of blacks and welfare, when it’s the whole notion of not just blacks and welfare but it’s the poor in general who really can’t afford materialistic things that middle and upper class people can afford. Going from “cultural poverty”’ which is the notion to live in poverty but have welfare assistance, to go down to “absolute poverty” which is to have absolutely nothing is a feeling that concerns me for the future. I say this because me being an African American woman, who is seeking a degree, to better myself in the future makes me worry, for when I do become independent and move out of my parents’ house. I don’t seek that I will ever be poor, but I do seek I will start off poor with little income and move up to different levels to reach a financially stabled income I am satisfied with. Sociologically the system of politics about poverty lacks the interest within society today, therefore politicians shouldn’t treat the poor any different from middle and upper class people. Everyone has to find there satiability in life starting from the bottom, and for some it takes a while, therefore politicians should reconsider taking away welfare benefits from the poor and seek other options to invest in money that they need for the