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American Poverty

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1. Log Into Your PearlTrees Account
2. Create new "Collection" - Called "American Poverty"
3. Inside that "Collection" - collect images, statistics, & videos that you think reveal the current reality of poverty in America.
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Select at least 2 pieces from each website - try to vary the focus of your tiles
5. To the RIGHT of each saved title add in a "note" on that note breifly sumarize what the image, stat, or video is revealing.
6. In your "note" explain
a. Who is directly affected
b. How the affect influences thier future
c. How is the instance of poverty affecting thier community
d. How is the instance of poverty affecting our Nation
e. Is there anything being done to fix the problem? If not, what do you think could/should be done to address the issue. Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline. Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Declin.

Packard Plant. Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Declin. William Livingstone House. The New Face of Hunger. Millions of working Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from. We sent three photographers to explore hunger in three very different parts of the United States, each giving different faces to the same statistic: of Americans don’t have enough food to eat. Click below to launch galleries Osage, IowaPhotographs by Amy ToensingOn our nation’s richest lands, farmers grow corn and soybeans used to feed livestock, make cooking oil, and produce sweeteners. Yet one in eight Iowans often goes hungry, with children the most vulnerable to food insecurity.

Houston, TexasPhotographs by Kitra CahanaDespite a strong economy, Houston is ringed by neighborhoods where many working families can’t afford groceries. Bronx, New YorkPhotographs by Stephanie SinclairUrban neighborhoods with pervasive unemployment and poverty are home to the hungriest. By Tracie McMillan Photographs by Kitra Cahana, Stephanie Sinclair, and Amy Toensing Dreier knows her gambit might backfire, and it does. Houston2 2048. Jacqueline Christian. Houston1 2048. Young Father. Slideshow: Poverty in Today's America.

American Poverty slide 2. Honolulu. American Poverty Slide 8. Shirley and Makela.