In America, many of the poverty shifted from cities to suburbs, thus causing problems on ways the …show more content…
Some people and families in poverty have to save up in order to pay the next month’s rent, food, and have decent clothing for their own good, while many people who take things for granted are perfectly fine. In Sarah Jae Blake’s article, I never knew what it was like to be poor…, she talks about a friend that is going through poverty and how her friend had to raise up 100 dollars in order to pay the landlord for her family’s rent. She says that “People never seem to care about the poor unless they actually know someone who is poor.” (Blake), stating that people just keep a blind eye to the poor until they see it firsthand themselves. She shows how hard it is for the family to negotiate with the landlord, but she showed no care for this poor family. Being said that people are greedy for money instead of helping the one in need. More than 45 million people in the United States was estimated total in 2014 and continues to grow as the years go on. Some political parties take a small toe dip into the cold parts of poverty and quickly ignore the harsh truth about