FINAL SELFIE

Poverty

POverty 

Title Slide: Poverty

Script

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Text: In 2014, 47 million people lived in Poverty USA. That means the poverty rate for 2014 was 15%.

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Text: In 2014, the poverty rate for people living with a disability was 29%.

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Text: That’s more than 4 million people living with a disability—in poverty.

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Text: poverty is often perceived as a problem of urban environments and inner cities, the poverty rate in metropolitan areas (15%) is actually lower than the poverty rate for people outside of metropolitan areas (17%).

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Text: The Census Bureau (pdf) reported that in 2014, 46.7 million people (14.8 percent) lived in poverty.

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Text: Children continue to have high poverty rates, with 21.1 percent of children under 18 living in poverty in 2014.

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Text: The number of individuals in households that faced the deepest struggles with hunger – “very low food security” – was 5.5 percent in 2014. 15.3 million children lived in food insecure households in 2014, compared to 15.8 million in 2013.

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Text: Veterans have lower overall rates of poverty than Non-Veterans.

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Text: The poverty rate for Veterans between the ages of 18 to 34 are higher than all other age groups. 

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Text: Disabled Veterans have higher poverty rates than disabled non-Veterans for all age groups except over age 65. Veteran poverty trends need monitoring due to higher poverty rates in disabled Veterans. 

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Narration plays over the next slides and into credits:

5 Ways to Fight Poverty in Your Community

There are so many different ways to fight poverty in your community. Here are five things YOU can do to make a difference.

1. Educate Yourself A nationwide lack of affordable housing, the sad state of public education, the lack of public transportation systems, and racial injustice, all contribute to an endless cycle of poverty that pervades every state in this country. By reading and educating yourself, you can strengthen your understanding of anti-poverty movements. Take it one more step and put your findings in a letter to the editor or article for your local paper or newsletter.

2. Take Legislative Action 
Support national and local non-profits in their efforts to develop and drive anti-poverty legislation. Petitions are a fantastic way to create change in your local government or neighborhood. You can choose to fight a bad policy, or create a good one. You can write your own petition, or help to propagate one already in existence.

3. Donate You can donate food, money, clothing, toiletry items, old furniture, toys and magazines. Check the organization’s websites or call first to be sure that they can use your donation.

4. Volunteer You can volunteer with kids, families, women, the elderly, the disabled, the homeless, and the mentally ill; in shelters, soup kitchens, community centers, after school programs, and employment centers. You can teach literacy, resume development, job training courses, ESL, computer class, coach sports, serve food, and provide counseling.

5. Organize a Rally or Fundraiser
A rally is great way to raise awareness. A large gathering of people shows solidarity for a cause, and is a great way to get the attention of the media, businesses, local legislature, and other concerned community members. A benefit concert, a 5k run, or even a bake sale can help raise both funds AND awareness.

Taken from https://www.jewishinseattle.org/programs-initiatives/focus-fight/resources/12-ways-fight-poverty

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Credits

Pamela Araya

Images, Content Contributor, Statistics

Nora Bradbury

Narration, Content Contributor, Script

Teresa Ryan

Images, Content Contributor, Credits

Dinah Vavaeo

Content Contributor, Editor

Poverty Statistics

Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United

States

https://www.google.com/search?

q=richest+people+in+the+world+

2014&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS578US578&biw=2133&bih=992

&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=

0ahUKEwir2bnEsdnJAhUHJR4KHcuyAMEQ_AUIBSgA&dpr=0.9

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/

http://www.povertyusa.org/the-state-of-poverty/poverty-usa-

tour/

http://blogs.blouinnews.com/blouinbeatbusiness/tag/economic

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commission-for-latin-america/

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/07/07/millions-

soldiers-

and-veterans-trouble

http://americawhatwentwrong.org/story/new-measurements-

american-poverty/

http://www.duffelblog.com/wp-

content/uploads/2012/08/Vanderhoof2-380x400.jpeg

Music Credits

Kai Engel

"December"

http://www.kai-engel.com

Free Music Archive/Creative Commons

Image Credits

"Faces of Poverty"

Courtesty of Arleen Thaler

http://postrochester.com/rochester-poverty/

Flickr.com

Creative Commons

Pictures available for re-use

Teresa Ryan

Pamela Araya

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