The two themes that I will be writing about are the racial and poverty issues before and after Katrina. Poverty before Katrina in the state of Louisiana was still bad. Louisiana ranks second worst in our country in poverty. Once Katrina hit it just got worse. In the article written by Bob Faw from NBC News he states that many didn’t have any type of insurance, many could not leave the area because they were dependent on government checks, and many couldn’t even afford the basic transportation.
Unemployed parents could not pay for food or water, nor could they pay for clothing and shelter, and as a result, innocent children suffered. Incapable of providing for their families, many fathers became frustrated, and simply abandoned them, leaving them to fend for themselves. Other times, young children were left homeless, having no one to care for them. During the height of the Great Depression, at least 200000 young people and 25000 families roamed the country, in search of food. These alarming statistics show just how greatly the Depression did actually impact
There were so many deaths many could not be burried properly and were put in shallow graves which also helped the spread of the disease. Very few were immune to the disease, approximately two percent of the population. It effected ever class of people from clergymen to peasants. The sudden of death of many many people caused the prices of goods to sky rocket because people started to get scared to come in contact with outsiders and goods became scarce. The disease impacted the peasants more than any other class.
(Document B) Without water, the crops were unable to grow which led to hunger, starvation, and death. When there where crops to tend to, the water levels were too weak to do so. (Document B) Moreover, the rivers and lakes became brackish which means that they started to fill with salt. Therefore, their dependable sources of fresh water became limited. (Document A) Since there was a short supply of fresh water, many colonists died of dehydration.
In Lexington, and similar other rural communities with new workers flooding the area, homelessness became a problem. With large number coming to an area there was a shortage of housing. The new residents would often put up unsightly tents, which annoyed the host community. In addition, with poor working conditions there were many injuries, with low wages and no benefits, small rural hospitals began to have large unpaid medical cost. When workers became disabled and stayed in the houses in the community, the social of their living is passed on to the public.
Many immigrants had to deal with poor living and working conditions (OK). Immigrants were paid low wages, so they had to live in tenements (Document 1). Tenements were crowded, unsanitary, and unsafe apartments that were very small (OK). Diseases spread quickly due to the overcrowding (OK). They were unsafe because there were no regulations on how they were built.
Many people did not have money to spend in businesses and businesses also took out loans that needed to be paid back. However, without business they were not making any money resulting in business failure. This also hurt the economy. After the war the price of grain dropped and farmers
There were no rivers or lakes to provide irrigation and what rain did fall was soon evaporated by the sun. The tools settlers brought with them from the east were useless, as well as the seeds from their previous eastern crops. Plows were not strong enough to cut through the hard ground, and the plants were simply not hearty enough to live in such tough conditions. Even if farmers were able to manage to produce enough crops to feed their families there still wasn't enough to sell to financially sustain their them. The land they had been given to cultivate was nowhere near a fertile and yielded fewer crops.
Throughout the Civil War, medical knowledge was extremely basic. Many doctors didn’t understand infection, and those who did, did little or nothing to prevent it. Approximately two thirds of the soldiers died from infections as a result of unsound hygiene and sanitary conditions. Disease was extremely prominent in Civil War camps because of the disgusting conditions that the soldiers had to live in. Even though during the civil war, many medical advancements were being made, they were not being made quick enough to save approximately 400,000 soldiers who died from disease and infection.
One of the leading causes of human trafficking is poverty. “It has been documented that poverty leads to a lack of education leading to no employment and that leading to sex trafficking” (Duren et al. 1). Jian didn’t have much money so they had to be migrant workers for the rest of their lives. Mya wasn’t able to attend school for that very reason.