1. As you watch this clip, notice the interaction between the groups and notice the cultural differences. i.e. communication, dress, even dancing.

2. Poverty Level Today Number of Family Members Income Level 1$ 10,830 2$14,570 3$18,310 4$22,050 5$25,790 6$29,530 7$33,270 8$37,010 For each additional person add $3,260

3. Income Breakdown weekly income=$372.12 monthly income=$1,612.50 factor in necessary expenses: – rent ($600) –food($450) –clothing($50) –medical expenses, etc.($150) –other necessities($300) –TOTAL=$1,500 –Left over=$112.50

4. The Invisible Poor 83 million in "poverty" classification 40 million families- annual incomes under $4,000; almost 25 million had annual incomes of under $3,000. still 12 1/2 million Americans were below poverty level; 3 1/2 million of these had annual incomes of under $2,000; 1 3/4 million had less than $1,000 a year.

5. Who Were They and Why Were These Groups More Likely To Be Poor? Elderly Hispanic Americans White Appalachia African Americans

6. Michael Harrington middle-class family educated at Yale and University of Chicago consciousness-raising efforts joined the socialist party while in college  an eloquent spokesperson for that group wrote The Other America in 1962 to raise awareness to the millions living in poverty in America

7. Poverty Rates in America 1950-1990

8. The Elderly Invisible Poor Louise W. aged 73, lives by herself in a single furnished room on the third floor of a rooming house located in a substandard section of the city. In this one room she cooks, eats, and sleeps…widowed at 64 she has few friends remaining from her younger years. Those who do remain do not live near her and it is difficult for her to see them…and so she stays confined to her one room and the bathroom shared by nine other people. When the weather is warm enough, she ventures down the long flight of stairs about once a week for a walk to the corner and back.

9. The Elderly Invisible Poor cont’d Most made decent wages during there working years Now living on a small social security pension well below the poverty line Mostly living in urban areas in run-down apartment buildings

10. Public Reaction Writer and journalist Robert A. Gorman said that, “Harrington wanted to deflate the nation’s complacency by evoking poverty, [and] suggesting in his words, its look, its smell, and its often twisted spirit…” (52). Martin Luther King once jokingly told Harrington, “You know, we didn’t know we were poor until we read your book” (Gorman 53).

11. Positive Effects of the Book Drew attention to the fact that poverty was (and still is) an enormous problem that isn’t going away President Kennedy started the “War on Poverty” (direct result)

12. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=pq28qCklEHc