My two emphasis areas are psychology and business. I am confident that there is a psychology component, or at least an easier tie, to each of these scholarly peer reviewed articles. First, let me say how awesome the Summon search is. I am interested in how the private sector can contribute to upward mobility and doing more to elevate people out of poverty. I am also interested in what government and the private sector share in common and how they are different (this also has a political differentiation). In these articles I found good information on poverty. I found one in particular fascinating because it speaks of how we have lost the war on poverty. In another article it brings up the idea that many of our seniors are living in poverty; that got me thinking about the baby boomers (the largest cohort passing through time in history) and their possible fight against poverty as they live longer than previous generations. The final article shows how job creation creates upward mobility.
I think I am off to a good start but need to narrow the focus to something more specific and more measurable. I believe in our capitalistic free enterprise system and that the private sector is the best hope for helping people out of poverty. I hope to find proof of my beliefs in the research...
Cynthia
Christensen, Elaine Gates, Poverty: An Iowan perspective, Journal of Vascular
Nursing, Volume 26, Issue 2, June 2008, Pages 34-36, ISSN 1062-0303,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvn.2007.09.001.
In this
scholarly, peer reviewed article healthcare in Iowa is examined. Iowa ranks
number one in the number of citizens over 80 years old and in the top ten for
citizens over the age of 65. What I find interesting is the number of citizens
in Iowa that are below the nation median income and at the same time the number
of citizens in their senior years. As the baby boom generation continues to
retire and at the same time live substantially longer than past generations;
what will these facts contribute to poverty in the future. Can older Americans
keep up with the costs of living and keep themselves out of poverty, or are the
increasing numbers of our senior citizenry in for a life of poverty?
Hanson, F. (1997,
Fall97). How proverty lost its meaning. CATO Journal. p. 189.
“After decades of
dashed hopes and expenditures that have produced no tangible benefits, the
nation seems tacitly to have acknowledged that we fought a War on Poverty and
poverty won (see Sawhill 1988: 1085). Many see a brave title--the
"Personal Responsibility and Employment Opportunity Act of 1996"--as
merely papering over a wearied and frustrated withdrawal from the War on
Poverty.
It has been
possible to withdraw from the War on Poverty partly because the poor exercise
very little political clout. They are a minority, many of them do not vote, and
they do not otherwise participate in political life. Thus, when Congress was
revamping poverty policy, the halls were empty of lobbyists arguing the case
for the poor (Clymer 1996).”
While reading
this article I found the premise interesting. Who will fight for the poor? The
article suggests that when legislation is brought forth there exist few
lobbyists to fight for the poorest among us. The article also shows some
political difference of opinion related to poverty and how it should be handled.
Fullwiler, S. T.,
& Meyeraan, S. (2010). Confronting Poverty with Jobs and Job Training: A
Northeast Iowa Case Study. Journal Of Economic Issues (M.E. Sharpe Inc.),
44(4), 1073-1084. doi:10.2753/JEI0021-3624440411
