Poverty in the United States

Just Neighbors and Results are both organizations that raise awareness for poverty in the United States. According to Just Neighbors, one in every eight people in the United States lives in poverty. Most poverty stricken adults in the United States are hard working people. Most of these people have children. They live in unsafe housing and dangerous neighborhoods to keep their children from starving. Just Neighbors bring together the needy with the individuals who want to help. Not only does Results raise awareness for impoverished Americans, but also raises awareness for poverty throughout the world. Their task, however, is to use political power to end poverty in the United States and the entire world. Because of poverty, many people, adults and children, go hungry. Results uses their funds to educate the public about how prevalent poverty is throughout the world. Results hopes to end hunger by creating the political will to make necessary changes. The end goal for Results is to end both poverty and hunger throughout the world.

It is good that organizations like Results and Just Neighbors are striving to make the public more aware about poverty and hunger throughout the world. I found these sites to be helpful in raising awareness on poverty in the United States. I have seen poverty and how it affects families first hand. In the Results site they talked of poverty as if it were some sort of disease that we must find a cure for. Results did not give the reader a clear picture of those afflicted with poverty. I preferred the Just Neighbors site because it stresses that most Americans afflicted with poverty are good, hard working people. Their goal is to directly help those in need. However, Results only seems interested in educating, lobbying, and rallying the public with poverty awareness. In the meantime, people are dieing from poverty related causes.