Poverty and How it Effects are Everyday Lives

Another project that is trying to make lead way in the poverty war. Is the Project South(PS) is a program that is felt strongly felt though out the South East United States. Project South(PS) is a community-based, membership institute that develops popular political and economic education and action research for organizing and liberation. They contribute to the development of a strategic vision for the movement emerging in the ese new times-bringing together grassroots, scholar and cultural activists and youth on the basis of equality to join in the process of understanding and transforming our society. The work of Project South is funded by dues and contributions, in-kind work, and grants from the Atlanta Black United Fund, the Center for Responsive Politics, the Schumann Foundation, the Fund for Southern Communities, and the Mayer-Katz Foundation,(South). The following are the true statistics form the 1995 fiscal year and the consequences of budget cuts. While the poverty rate of 20.8 percent for children under 18 years old in 1995 was significantly lower than the 1994 rate of 21.8 percent, it remained higher than those of other age groups. There was a significant drop in the number of people living below the official government poverty level between 1994 and 1995. In 1995, there were 36.4 million poor, a figure 1.6 million lower than the 38.1 million poor in 1994. The 1995 federal budget set in motion a program that will see billions and billions of dollars cut from social programs. At a time of greatest need, the government is cutting support programs and making it more difficult for those who need the programs to qualify. So what is the government doing about poverty? Nothing! It is abandoning its responsibility and blaming the victims of its policies for the situation they find themselfs in.