Poverty in Philadelphia

Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity

and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

This relates to poverty because, people who are impoverished are robbed of their dignity. They have nothing while we continue to flourish and buy things we want, when they cant buy the things they need.

That is not in the spirit of brotherhood

THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Article 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,

inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

For example living out of a car or box and having nothing to your name is very degrading. Especially because you cant not help that fact that you are poor.

When you are poor torture can be simple as simple as paying the same taxes as people who are in middle class.

THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Article 21 (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government

of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.

(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures. People who are poverty do not have the time or money to

vote because they have no means of transportation. There are other things occupying there time like balancing the jobs they have or getting a job they need. They feel cheated by the system.

THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Robert Fairbanks is a professor at the University of Philadelphia.

He tells us about how 60,000 row homes were abandon and 30,000 were converted for addicts and alcoholics.

This was in the slums of Kensington Philadelphia.

He tells us from a secondary point of view.

My findings were that poverty could slowly be helped if we have more cities like Philadelphia.

ROBERT FAIRBANKS

Makia Harper was a professor and anthropologist at Drexel University.

She started the Witness to hunger program

Picked 40 women to interview and study To her surprise she found that what they

go through was awful. She tells us from a secondary point of

view from these women You don’t know what other go through

until you have seen it or lived it.

MAKIA HARPER

Lisa Levenstein is a professor at the University of North Carolina.

She has been involved with poverty and women’s health since 1994

These women say they are no different from any of us they have the same wants and needs. It takes a lot for these people to survive poverty.

She has a secondary view point.I think that discrimination against

your gender and race is wrong especially in the point of poverty.

LISA LEVENSTEIN

POVERTY IN PHILLY TODAY

Our Team Offers You Challenge and Struggle and a Good Night's Sleep is a speech written into the “Vital speeches of the day”

This is a magazine from NY.It was made to the graduating class of

2012 at the University of Pennsylvania. It is tough on these kids coming out of

college and not knowing if one day they will end up in poverty with nothing.

It was a secondary source.

VITAL SPEECHES OF THE DAY

"Fact Sheet : Hunger in Ph i lade lph ia | Greate r Ph i lade lph ia Coa l i t ion Aga inst Hunger. " Fact Sheet : Hunger in Ph i lade lph ia | Greate r Ph i lade lph ia Coa l i t ion Aga inst Hunger . N .p . , n .d . Web. 20 Nov. 2013.

Hungry children are:• 60% more likely to miss school. • 50% more likely to repeat a grade. • Twice as likely to be suspended from

school.• Twice as likely to require special

education.

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