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“In the 1950s this America worried about itself, yet even its anxieties were products of abundance…. [T]he nation’s problems were no longer a matter of basic human needs, of food, shelter, and clothing. Now they were seen as qualitative, a question of learning to live decently amid luxury. While this discussion was carried on, there existed another America. In it dwelt somewhere between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 citizens of this land. They were poor. They still are. To be sure, the other America is not impoverished in the same sense as those poor nations where millions cling to hunger as a defense against starvation. This country has escaped such extremes. That does not change the fact that tens of millions of Americans are, at this very moment, maimed in body and spirit, existing at levels beneath those necessary for human decency. If these people are not starving, they are hungry, and sometimes fat with hunger, for that is what cheap foods do. They are without adequate housing and education and medical care. The Government has documented what this means to the bodies of the poor . . . . But even more basic, this poverty twists and deforms the spirit. The American poor are pessimistic and defeated, and they are victimized by mental suffering to a degree unknown in Suburbia.” —Michael Harrington, from The Other America, 1962

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A) Explain the point of view about poverty in America expressed by the text excerpt.



B) Explain the relationship between the chart data and the War on Poverty.



C) Compare the War on Poverty of the 1960s to the New Deal of the 1930s.

Answer 1

A) from the excerpts point of view, "poverty" is different in america than it is in say a place like Africa where people are dying from starvation. American poverty is having no way to move on, or be happy because you may have a house and food but you will go nowhere in life and you will die poor.

The link wouldn't work for me so i'll answer C) since I know it

C) The war on poverty took place and is still taking place in a stable government environment, so there is plenty of records to help people who are struggling in the 1960's- to now. In the 1930's people where actually starving to death because there was not only a national depression but most of the farmland was useless because of overproduction, and there was little hope in actually helping the people of the great depression.

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Answer 2

Answer:

I know it doesn't matter now, being 3 years later, but maybe this would help future people. I also posted a picture of the image

Explanation:

After the War on Poverty Bill was passed, there was a significant decrease in the poverty rate, but then starting in 1973, when the Energy Crisis hit, there was a big boom in the increase of the poverty rates because with there being less and less gasoline, people couldn't go to work because they couldn't afford gas, in turn, they would lose their jobs, enter into the poverty rates, and possibly even become homeless.