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Social reformers back in the progressive era made a larger impact. I feel that now, we are using more resources to spread the word and help others. However, I feel that the reformers in the progressive era made larger advances.

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Settlement houses were established which offered housing, education, childcare, and work. This got many people off the street and gave them different opportunities they didn't have before. Without these settlement homes the children in poverty would not have gotten education or simple opportunities.

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MetroFocus
Scattered across the five boroughs of New York City are vibrant organizations serving children and adults of all ages and from every walk of life. These are the settlement houses: centers that provide help and new opportunity to our urban population. The new documentary Treasures of New York: Settlement Houses, airs 11/17 at 8pm on WLIW, explores the 130-year old settlement house movement

Aired: 11/17/16

Rating: NR

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MetroFocus | Treasures of New York: Settlement Houses

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MetroFocus Scattered across the five boroughs of New York City are vibrant organizations serving children and adults of all ages and from every walk of life. These are the settlement houses: centers that provide help and new opportunity to our urban population.

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Jacob A Riis:
Was a newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer who took photos of the urban slums and tenements to educate the people of New York about poverty. He was an immigrant who lived in Denmark until he was 21. He had various jobs where he saw firsthand the "ragged underside" of city life. He became a police reporter and was assigned to the lower east part of New York where he found that the death rate for infants was 1 in 10. He used his pictures to exaggerate how important it is that less fortunate people had homes and opportunities. He spread his knowledge not only through photos but also through lectures and books.

Another reformer was named Jane Addams. She helped people in a neighborhood of immigrants. She and her friend bought a house and turned into a settlement house for people suffering from poverty.

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The largest problem with poverty during the progressive era was, crowded tenements, urban slums, and citizens without homes. This poverty was often caused by laborers not being paid enough by wealthy business owners who took advantage of their workers and power.

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In January 2021, 37.9 million people in the US lived in poverty, accounting for 11.6% of the total population. This is now due to income inequality, inflation, and unemployment.

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Though people have worked to stop it, there is still poverty throughout the entire country. In some largely populated and expensive states, the amount of people living in poverty is exponentially larger than it used to be.

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The goal of the IRP is to "advance the understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality." The IRP uses resources that were not available during the progressive era to spread their knowledge throughout the entire country. They effectively make changes to benefit less fortunate individuals.

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The IRP is a non-profit organization that works to inform policies and programs to combat poverty. They educate others about the lives of people who are less fortunate as well as acting to change policies which would help people in poverty. Another government organization called the SSI, helps elderly and disabled who are struggling through poverty.

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Both solutions help people struggling with poverty. The IRP works to change policies and programs to help people and Jacob A Riis made settlement houses to help people in need. The settlement houses of course, were not able to completely solve poverty but they did make a very large change.

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The IRP and Jacob Riis both worked to educate others about poverty. They both used what they know about poverty to teach and also to make changes in society that would benefit the lives of the less fortunate. They may have done it in different ways but this is because the IRP has many more resources to make a change.