SOC 1000C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Extreme Poverty
10 May 2016
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Report: 2. 8 million in nj living in poverty - newsworks. org. Joe hernandez, the author of this article, brings forth new insights on the amount of people living in new jersey who are currently considered poverty level. According to lsnj, a nonprofit that supplies free legal assistance to poor residents, two million adults and 800,000 children are impoverished across the garden state (2). New jersey has been this way since the. Although it is wealthy in the union, the state has the third- highest level of long term unemployment. Jobs, in particular manufacturing and construction jobs, are declining. Poverty rates in new jersey have increased because of a lack of affordable housing, lower educational attainment, and wage decline. Solutions stated in this article to combat this problem is for the state to offer more affordable housing and increasing welfare benefits for residents that are entering poverty level. In class, we have discussed absolute poverty, relative poverty, poverty line, and extreme poverty.
