Many clients of human services will be economically disadvantaged or near to it. Prior to beginning work on this discussion watch the video The Truth About Poverty in America and read Who is Poor in the United States? A Hamilton Project Annual Report. Identify 10 groups you know who have been affected by poverty and need human services. Determine whether prejudice exists against indigent populations. Considering our country’s economy and current unemployment rates, is this issue personal or systematic? What are some reasons for current financial instability? Support your response with one outside scholarly source.
Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful and interactive discourse in this discussion.
Summarize your personal reaction(s) to the 10 groups selected. Suggest any changes to the list that you think should be considered. Do you agree or disagree with your classmates’ conclusions whether prejudice exists against indigent populations? Why or why not? Lastly, do you agree or disagree with your classmates’ conclusion that poverty is personal or systematic? Support your thoughts with evidence from the required readings. Continue to monitor the discussion forum until Day 7 of the week and respond to anyone who replies to your initial post.
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Kadrijah Smith
Oct 27, 2021 at 4:38 PM
10 groups that have been effected by poverty and in need human services are single mothers, the unemployed, Americans with disabilities, black and African Americans, non citizen immigrants, children, Hispanics and Latinos, women, service workers, and adults without high school diploma. I think this is a systematic issue. A current reason for financial instability would have to be Covid-19. The pandemic made the world shut down for about 6 months and many people are still recovering from that. The shutdown forces people to lose their jobs. The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted economic sectors disparately. The unemployment rate peaked in April 2020, at a level not seen since data collection started in 1948, before declining to a level in July 2021 that still remained 1.9 percentage points above the pre-recession rate observed in January 2020.
Romero, P., Nicchitta, I., Nyhf, E., (Aug 2021), Unemployment Rates During the Coid-19 Pandemic, https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R46554.pdf
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