Poverty in US Cities - Eye Opening Facts

[jams]

I taught in Urban Jersey City, NJ. It is just a cycle of stupidity and poverty. Until the cycle is broben nothing will change.

The city once developed an area with prefab houses(beautiful)...within a few months it turned back into a slum.

If people don't have to work for it, they don't respect it!

[Ron61]

Jams,

They once did that here with a small area and built nice but cheap homes for the people and basically all they had to do was keep them in nice shape. Within a year the city condemned the area and bull dozed the homes and it is now a shopping mall. Those people weren't happy at all about having a place to live. It was like everyone owed it to them and to expect them to keep them clean was discriminating against them. Really said, because if they had just did that little bit of work, they would have added more until many of the lower paid people had decent homes to live in. Now they are living off their dope trade. And staying in dumps while they have more money than most of the working people.

Ron