Poverty: Historical Reference ?

Please do not duplicate posts on a2k.

You time frame makes it tough, but you might be able to fit Jacob Riis into it.

Jacob Riis

I also suggest you look up the history of American unions. The only other lead I can suggest is religious groups like the Shakers who took in poor orphans.

Sorry about the topic being posted triple
When I posted the first time my connection timed out and when I checked if it got posted it didn't show up. And then the second time it happened so I had to reset my connection, checked first , it didn't show up so I reposted .. apperently it got through later ..

So if a mod could delete the other 2 and keep this, thanks and sorry.

ccerone and green witch thanks for your replies ille take a deeper look in a moment.

Dreagon, I'm an "experienced" poster on a2k, and I sometimes still double post, because of the delays on connections. Just wanted you to have a head's up on this problem.

Thank you very much for the heads up.

Jacob Riis does look like a plausable candidate to helping in solving poverty by raising awareness and having a personal experience of being poor.

I'm not yet final on this decisicion but this helps point me in a better direction.

Poverty in the USA - and it's hard to find material???? Why not try a guy called Karl Marx? (He argued that 'free enterprise' economies like the USA need poverty in order to function) But you'll probably get arrested or run out of town on a rail if you bring his name up.