Going into the assignment i thought about what i thought poverty was based on my pre knowledge and also what i had red in the first few lines. i always had the image that poverty was living on the streets such as people I've seen in salt lake on temple square. i've been known to help where i could in small ways like giving money or a food drive here or there but reading this paper helped me realize that poverty applies to a whole class in society larger then those who just live on the street, like in the reading example we find a women who lives alone with her children and the hardships of poverty, i notice that its almost a repeating cycle, that drives poverty on and on she cant get out, she cant work cause she has to tend her kids cause day care costs too much! So she is stuck she cant get away from it. she cant afford medicens and hospitals because she cant afford it, she cant buy cloths because she doesn't have the money and that could be why she doesn't have a job. she has a home but its run down.
The message i drew was that the cycle of poverty continues to repeat unless there is an outside force that will disrupt the cycle and change that situation and that people in poverty need our help because they cant help themselves or they would.
