Blog #8 - Working Poor Women’s Paid Labor

Urban poverty is something that seems to possibly never escape us. Currently you have many different situations across the country that involves the different families and the reason that they are part of our nation’s poverty level. Currently, in today’s recession I think it’s even more prevalent than ever. Mothers are having a hard time getting into the work force and the different issues that they are facing are very serious. What do you do when you are a mother with children, and can’t get a job to help provide for them? It’s something that many males do not necessarily think about however, it’s something that we need to. As I have said many times coming from a single family home raised by only a mother I can speak to many of these issues because a lot of them I grew up first hand experiencing. However, even though my mom was able to keep a consistent job, and work 2nd odd and end type jobs there was always one thing in common she always did whatever was necessary to make sure that we had what was needed. In the video on urban poverty this seems to be a little bit different. It was more about how women would work and still not able to make the ends to support their home meet. I thought it was very interesting how some people in the video would either live in their own guilt or they would go about finding ways to make best of the situation at hand. I think a great example of this would be in the video it shows how a family could not make the ends of living on their in turn they ended up moving in with the grandparents. This allowed for them to save a little money, however, was not enough of relief for them to save up money to get back out on their own. It also was very prevalent that the grandmother needed the financial assistance as well. Overall urban poverty is a problem that we still see quite a bit. With the rise of living cost, and financial wages staying the same something has got to change here. What do you think?

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