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America has long been hailed as the land of opportunity. However, in recent years we have
experienced unprecedented levels of income inequality and a widespread increase in the working
poor. Despite the United States’ long held belief of the self-made, thriving family, today’s world
paints a much different picture. I put together ideas and statistics from books such as
Corporations are not People, The Big Squeeze, and The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and
Inequality in Postwar Detroit, scholarly articles, and information I learned firsthand from my
recent work with Beneficence Family Scholars, a nonprofit operating in Muncie, Indiana.
Throughout the paper I lay out the case for why we have a systemic problem with how we treat
the poor in the United States and how making education more accessible allows individuals and
communities to escape the shackles of generational poverty. |
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