UNIT B - Blog 8

The problems urban poverty creates for poor working mothers are more crime in neighborhoods and most poor working mothers live in bad neighborhoods already so this is a threat to their children and even themselves. Urban poverty leads to poor schools so their children can get a poor education or possibly no education at all. There's also the problem of jobs because more jobs are being taken away or are letting people go and these women are left jobless and without an income to support their family. All of this differs from problems that poor women living in mixed income neighborhoods because the women living in mixed income neighborhoods don't have as bad of neighborhoods so their streets are a little safer and jobs are more diverse. Mixed neighborhoods also have more diverse atmospheres and their schools are a little better because they have a mixture of everybody and the children can learn better and not have to deal with so much crime that goes on in poorer schools and neighborhoods. Women will be able to find jobs better because there’s a lot more options for them than in a poorer neighborhood which harbors drugs and criminals at a constant rate. It seems that if a community is filled with all poverty that crime seems to accumulate at a much faster rate because people feel they need to resort to criminal and illegal activities in order to survive out there. In mixed neighborhoods you have people of different backgrounds and incomes and you can learn to understand them and maybe get advice on how to move up in a career or get information on schooling and day care options. In the video about a lady named Jessica she lived in poverty and she talked about how her neighborhood was unsafe to the point where her children weren't allowed to play outside because she was fearful they would get shot or killed.