Unit B Blog #9

While studying the correlation between working poor women and poor children the connection is obvious. If the mother is poor and working a low paying job, the children will be poor also, because the child is basically an extension of yourself. If the mom is working a lot to try to put food on the table, the children often mirror this kind of lifestyle and learn to adapt to the low wages of often time both of the parents, but unfortunately many times the mother is on her own with the children.

The charts on the website showed me that a lot more children than I expected were living in conditions that would be considered impoverished. This is awful because many times the children that grow up in these conditions are never able to get out of them, and they end up repeating almost the same life as their parents did before them.

The videos showed us that there is a lot you can do to attempt to put food on the table, and while it may not be much, places like the salvation army and the shelters that were discussed in the NPR stories do a lot for the poor working class. The videos showed us that without the salvation army many of the children in that Wisconsin community would have gone hungry, and that is something that no person would wish upon a child. These kids are born into the situations, they do not get a choice, and the video about the "food pantry" in Houston, Texas showed us what a great person can do. That lady took in five children that were not her own on a bus drivers salary. She was struggling to feed them all but she never gave up, she never surrendered. Places like the Houston food bank do a lot for communities such as this, because without these places and services available to the working poor, our communities would suffer. Organizations like this make you appreciate the things that can be done to help out a struggling family. I know it gave me a new insight.