Humanities Homework Help

With every service user, there is a story behind their circumstances. Sometimes that story is about abuse and neglect; sometimes it is about mental or physical health issues; and other times it is about poverty. And elements of each story are the systems and policies that have shaped the service user’s life.

Imagine a service user entering the agency where you work. The woman looks defeated, and emotionally and physically spent. She talks about making too much money for food stamps yet struggling to feed her family. She talks about needing health insurance and affordable housing. The woman says, “No matter what I do, I can’t stay afloat. The system is rigged.”

For this Assignment, you take a closer look at wealth and poverty in your community and your life and then consider how wealth inequality is created. 

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• Report on the unemployment rate, average family income, poverty rate, and homeless population in your community. How does each of these numbers compare to the national average? 
• Explain how the Learning Resources have helped you see how some races, ethnicities, and genders are more impacted by wealth inequality than others. 
  • Why do these disparities exist? What are the structural or policy barriers that helped to create them? 
• Explain the extent to which you have experienced wealth inequality and how this may inform your work as an HSPP.

  https://youtu.be/9diZJks95Ko

  Here is an article from learning sources for the week

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-…