Annotation 6

                Note: I will focus on mainly from 2000

Amy Glasmeier goes in America and looks at poverty from 1960-2003. Her main point of this book which is actually at atlas is to show poverty throughout the United States and how much poverty there really is.  The author goes through to show how education and health are really affected by poverty.

Glasmeier goes to tell us that in “2001, twelve million children under the age of 18 lived in poverty in the United States” (6). This is showing that there is a ton of poverty in the States and poverty is just not found overseas.  Glasmeiere states that education is most affected in the Central Appalachian “...below the national average in all but a few counties.  In many counties in the region, high school completion rate for 2000 are still below the national average” (53).  She is trying to tell us out on the west coast there is more poverty then anywhere else.

 I see this source building on poverty from the reading I did to show that there is poverty in America and not just in Africa. This will be inspired by the work I did in my essay by showing that poverty is found in rich areas just like Gandhi saw in Africa. He “did not advance the moral struggle of passive resistance as did the poor. The rich men’s sense of self-respect was not so much injured as that of the poorest” (332). This is showing that the rich can act poor or the poor can act rich and you cannot see the difference.

I plan on using this text to answer the question about how many children are actually poor and struggling in education. This will give us a better sense then what the course text gave us. Though the text did not answer the questions in class. This will expand on poverty in thoughts of how many are truly in poverty.

 I found this book in the library while looking through other books. The author is Amy Glasmeier and she is an expert in this area because she did research and found these numbers.

This Atlas will relate to the other books and journals by showing how much poverty there is throughout the United States during certain time periods. With be put into conversation with the other books when talking about health and education. This will show how many children are not getting it but does not show how they can get help like the other books do.

Work cited:

Gandhi, M. “Economic and Moral Progress.” Reading the World: Ideas That Matter. 2^nd. Ed.

Michael Austin. New York: Norton, 2003. Page 332. Print.

Glasmeier, Amy. An Atlas of Poverty in America. New York, 2006. Page 6,53. Print.