Realistic ways to reduce poverty in the USA (or worldwide).

Watch short videos on poverty in class:

1. Poverty in America Land of the Free, Home of the Broke CBS Newshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5b_FwR5HU
2. PBS News Poverty Rates Surge in American Suburbs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjsrdcbbPBU
3. Car Sleepers US Middle Class Crises video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovDiOJ3ofjs; Poverty in America 60 minutes:
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8EO_CisY7c
5. *60 Minutes Unemployment Collapse: Hard Times Generation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR6EHzt0hzw
6. Assign essay #2: Poverty (2-3 pages in MLA format).

Topics:

1. Realistic ways to reduce poverty in the USA (or worldwide).
2. What poverty means to you personally.
3. Why individuals are responsible (or not) for his or her own financial condition.
4. Explain the spiritual components of poverty, if any?
5. Comparison of global perspectives on poverty: Is one country’s poor another country’s rich? Explain.

Note: Many of these topics do not need any research, and you should be able to craft them from your own life experiences, prior knowledge, and the class readings/videos. This essay can also be a personal narrative related to your own, or a relative/friend’s, brush with poverty.