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Kelsey Kauflin

Professor Leonard

English 1201-511

27 October 2019

Works Cited

Edelman, Peter. “Poverty in America: Why Can't We End It?” The New York Times, The New

York Times, 28 July 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/why-cant -we-

end-poverty-in-america.html. Accessed 19 Oct. 2019.

“Poverty in America: Why Can't We End It?” by Peter Edelman is an article written in 2012

from the New York Times about the reasons why poverty persists in America. It talks about how

even though we have some programs that help poverty, there are still things that can be done to

help more people in need. Edelman wrote this article to try to convince Americans to take

measures to help improve poverty. It was written in 2012, so it is a bit older, but the content is

still prevalent today, so it is still credible. The author Peter Edelman is a professor at Georgetown

University, and he has previously written about poverty. Additionally, this article appears in the

New York Times, which is a credible source for people to get their news. I can use this article to

talk about some of the reasons why poverty is so hard to get rid of. I can also use this article to

talk about food stamps and other measures used to help with poverty.

Fay, Bill. “Poverty in the United States.” Debt.org, www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-

debt/ poverty-united-states/. Accessed 17 Oct. 2019.

Bill Fay writes this article “Poverty in the United States” from debt.org about multiple aspects of

poverty in America. It covers a wide range of information about poverty, from basic information

about poverty in America to causes of poverty to how poverty in other countries compares to
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poverty in America. This article was written to inform Americans about poverty in the United

States. I could not find a date for when the article was published, but there is information that is

from 2011, so the information is still quite persistent with information about poverty today. The

author, Bill Fay, has had work published on a plethora of credible sources, including the New

York Times, the Washington Post, and many others. In addition, he provides all of his sources at

the end of the article. I can use this article to talk about basic information about poverty, along

with some of the causes of poverty. It also will be helpful to write about the government

programs for poverty in the United States.

Gorman, Linda. “Why Poverty Persists.” The National Bureau of Economic Research,

www.nber.org/digest/jun06/w11681.html. Accessed 17 Oct. 2019.

Linda Gorman writes “Why Poverty Persists” about familial aspects of poverty. For example,

she describes how children are more likely to be in poverty than adults. She also describes how

different types of families are more or less likely to suffer from poverty, depending on gender

and marital status. The author writes this article to inform readers about the information in

another source titled “Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations.” There is no date, but there

are statistics from 2004. Linda Gorman is the Director of the Health Care Policy at the

Independence Institute. She mentions her sources, so this article seems to be credible. I can use

this article to talk about causes of poverty. This article seems to be unique from a lot of the other

articles because it mentions a lot of familial aspects of poverty. It will be useful to have some

different causes.

“Political Business Cycle.” Occasional Links & Commentary, 26 July 2012, anticap.

wordpress.com/2010/07/15/political-business-cycle/. Accessed 20 Oct. 2019.

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The source from this article is not actually the article, but rather the image. It shows an American

going to add wood to a fire titled “economic recovery.” Surrounding the American’s fire is an

overwhelming body of water titled “unemployment.” This political cartoon describes how people

in poverty have such a hard time pulling themselves out of poverty because they are surrounded

by unemployment. This image was posted in 2010, and I think that it accurately describes the

situation of those in poverty, so it could be useful for my research paper when describing why it

is so hard for those in poverty to pull themselves out of poverty.

“Poverty Has Declined in the United States, and Work Requirements in Welfare

Programs Are Not a Punishment.” The White House, The United States Government, 7

Aug. 2018, www.whitehouse.gov/articles/poverty-declined-united-states-work-

requirements -welfare-programs-not-punishment/. Accessed 17 Oct. 2019.

This article, “Poverty Has Declined in the United States, and Work Requirements in Welfare

Programs Are Not a Punishment,” which has no specific author, appears on whitehouse.gov and

is about how more work requirements should be placed on welfare programs. As poverty has

decreased, this article claims that more work requirements are needed to receive welfare. It

claims that welfare programs are a disincentive to work because as people work more, they lose

benefits. There is no distinct author, but it seems to have been written by somebody working for

the government who supports the reforms to welfare programs. This article was written in 2018,

so it is up to date with the programs and policies. I can use this source to talk about how poverty

has decreased and new work requirements might be established. It could help answer my

question about what factors are causing poverty to persist.

Sanders, Lori, and Eli Lehrer. "Don't Forget the Poor; The Poverty of the GOP's

Antipoverty Agenda." The Weekly Standard, 26 Aug. 2013. Gale In Context: Opposing
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Viewpoints,

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A340198092/OVIC?u=dayt30401&sid=OVIC&xid=943c

0984. Accessed 24 Oct. 2019.

Lori Sanders and Eli Lehrer write this article, "Don't Forget the Poor; The Poverty of the GOP's

Antipoverty Agenda," about how the conservative party should implement programs to help

poverty. This article describes how poor people are often a result of government policies. It is

difficult for people to make money because in today’s society, it costs money to have the proper

training and education to do most jobs. The authors wrote this article to convince the

conservative party to take action to help the poor. This article was written in 2013, so it is a little

bit older, but it still contains information that is important today. The authors Lori Sanders and

Eli Lehrer work for the R Street Institute, which is a research institute, so they should have

credible information and good sources. The information in this article will be useful in my

project because it describes how the government is not helping poverty come to an end.

Therefore, I can use this source to help describe why the government is a cause of poverty.

Thomhave, Kalena. "Why Work for Welfare Doesn’t Work." Gale Opposing Viewpoints

Online Collection, Gale, 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link- gale-

com.sinclair.ohionet.org/apps/doc/BNNBHJ892184398/OVIC?u=dayt30401&sid=OVIC

&xid=f0e37d5c. Accessed 19 Oct. 2019.

In this article found in Gale, “Why Work for Welfare Doesn’t Work” by Kalena Thomhave, the

author describes how public assistance programs seem to be hurting those in poverty, not helping

them. America expects able-bodied poor people to work, but in reality it is hard because

employers do not tend to hire those in poverty. Food stamps can only be given to those without

children if they work at least 20 hours a week, which is difficult to do if they cannot get hired.
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Thomhave wrote this article in order to challenge the policies in the Supplemental Nutrition

Assistance Program. It was written in 2018, and the way in which Thomhave brings attention to

the real issues with support makes it credible. She writes at the American Prospect, and she

worked as an Emerson National Hunger Fellow, where she learned a lot about food stamps and

policies. This source will help me to discuss a factor in which the economy is affected by

poverty. The economy struggles to help the poor, so in return, the poor fail to help the economy.