1. Betty.

2. Betty’s House.

3. A Familiar Sight for Welch, West Virginia.

5. Reality for many in The United States

8. Defining Poverty

11. How Poverty Starts

19. Predictors of Poverty

27. Why Poverty is Hard to Escape: Poor Education

35. Lack of Resources

41. What is being done to help solve this problem

55. Acknowledgements

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