Poverty

The issue I am discussing in my last essay is poverty. My main focus will be on poverty of African Americans in areas around the country. Specifically I will be looking at the Moynihan report to and how he could have used critical reasoning to make his report more accurate and true. Poverty is when people have insufficient means of supporting themselves and their family in everyday life. This condition plagues mostly minorities and especially African Americans. The reason that I decided to write about this subject is because in our Black Social Movements class poverty was something that was discussed almost everyday and it was one of the main challenges that black people struggled with and continue to struggle with every day. The enthusiasm that these people fought against poverty with and the stories of people like General Dogon were so inspiring that this topic was one that stood out in my mind more than any other topic we discussed in class this whole semester. There are so many different factors that account for poverty and the struggles that have gone along with each factor are so captivating. Also the Moynihan report provides me with a great source to discuss critical reasoning and how it relates to what is and what ought to be. It tried to close this gap, but in an extremely ignorant way, which allows for a perfect analysis of how critical reasoning could have been better used in this report.