Thursday, January 10, 2019

Poverty's Ugly Face

Whether its Buffalo seeing its steel industry eviscerated, Rochester facing job losses at Kodak and Xerox or Syracuse losing much of its Carrier production, the results are always the same...people out of good paying jobs and the growth of poverty. We all know that when a person loses his/her job it affects the entire family.

I can spend time talking about the so called 'blame game' but I'd rather focus on how to forge ahead until some good paying jobs for a large swath of society ever re-emerges.

Many people are working tirelessly to combat the effects of poverty. Some, like Schools Count Corp., are helping children in financially strapped areas. Others provide meals to those without the resources/funds to purchase food. Still other charitable people and NGO's are striving to aid the impoverished who need medical attention.

All of these effort are noteworthy. But from my vantage point there has to be a plan/structure that combines the above entities and other initiatives to fight the effects of poverty. Said in another way, we need to find a cohesive plan that addresses all of the issues that affects people suffering from all the crippling effects of poverty.

Until then, we'll just keep helping the kids.

Dick

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