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The Other America

Newsweek - September 19, 2005

1. What did Senator Barak Obama say about how people in New Orleans have been treated?

2. What is the poverty rate?

3. How does the U.S. poverty rate compare with those in other developed countries?

4. Why has poverty become less visible in the past decade? (3 reasons)

5. When did progress stall in the fight against poverty?

6. What were George W. Bush's two anti-poverty efforts?

7. What did Barbara Bush say in Houston?

8. Who are the poor in the United States?

9. What causes poverty in the United States?

10. What is the primary economic problem?

11. What "cultural habits" keep poor people poor? (at least 4 answers)

12. What role does segregation play in perpetuating poverty?

13. What are "scatter-site" housing programs? (p. 47)

14. How effective are "scatter-site" housing programs? What happened to them?

15. What evidence shows that racism was part of response to Katrina?

16. How does racism contribute to poverty?

17. How might Katrina change George W. Bush's presidency? (2 answers)

“Some Lessons from the Assembly Line”

18. Why did Andrew choose to do assembly line factory work in the summer?

19. What are three difficulties of assembly line work?

20. What does Andrew say that the factory work taught him?