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This 4 page paper discusses the fate of impoverished children as illustrated in Jacob Riis's book, How the Other Half Lives. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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summer. No one knew where he came from or where he belonged." This quote from Jacob Riiss book, How the Other Half Lives, illustrates the plight of the
working poor in New Yorks Eastside at the turn of the century. Because of his books and their startling pictures, Roosevelt as well as others vowed to change the crushing
poverty which produced children who had no hope. What comes to mind, of course, is if, a century removed from the writing of this book, conditions have truly improved for
children who grow up poor in America. The old adage says that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This having been said,
it is evident that efforts have been made toward easing the situation for those who are living below the poverty line in the United States, what started out to be
a war on poverty turned out to be a war on the poor. Its most innocent victims? The children. The war on the poor was
a multifaceted attack and as such was not noticed by the individual sectors causing the damage. However, the result had a devastating effect on poor children. For example, private enterprises
shipped their labor overseas, reducing the already small unskilled labor positions in this country. Secondly, the government, with its limitations on welfare, effectively limited welfare benefits to the middle class.
Lastly, the programs which were designed to give the poor a hand up, not a hand out, such as housing programs, back to work programs and re-education programs, have disappeared.
And, on the pro/con analysis of the reform, the progressives who had a heavy hand in the restructuring of the system assumed that poor people were not
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