Women and Poverty

What is the definition of poverty? Poverty is undergoing deprivation of those things that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water. Also it includes having an equal opportunity to education and employment. In this paper I will touch on the effects of poverty as it pertains to single African American mothers in Michigan.
It has grown over the past decades, years, months, weeks, well you get the point. “We” as a country shouldn’t have let it get to the heights that it is at now. In 1947 the federal government first calculated poverty rates it should have been addressed at that point in time. (Women In Poverty Committee, pg 1) But, was it handled then? No, that’s why I am writing to inform my people of the current issue. I am exposing it to the light, so that we may come together and work this thing out.

...Every year the number of women that experience economic stress increases.(Women In Poverty Committee, pg 1) This results in women becoming the head of the house hold and children that are raised on poverty. As the number of women in poverty grows so does the number of women on state assistance and it doesn’t accomplish much except fail to provide the basic needs for these families. According to the Women in Poverty Committee, the affects that poverty has on women have not changed but the effects on the children living in single parent homes have increased. It has also affected our communities as well.


“The problems Michigan women living in poverty have are not new. However, the degree to which it affects the community and the future if the children living in single-parent households has increased in recent years.” (Women In Poverty Committee, pg.1)
The three major things that play a role in poverty for women are age, gender, minority status and the low rate of child support payments from the fathers. People who have been poor for eight years or more are more likely to be female and a member of a minority. (Women In Poverty Committee, pg. 7)

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