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The reasons that people are in poverty is because housing prices have increased significantly, there have been many natural disasters causing a destroyed community, and lack of job positions. One huge cause that affected poverty was Covid because many people lost their job and it was hard to find another job so there were many people unemployed.

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One reformer is Oxfam. Oxfam is trying to help reduce poverty levels by getting donations to help build a better, safer, and healthier community for those who are less fortunate to have a decent lifestyle.

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Solutions to try and help reduce poverty levels are food assistance, housing assistance, and family tax credits. These all help reduce poverty. shown by studies these solutions have helped millions of family/people stay out of poverty.

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The connection to both problems of poverty from the Progressive Era and now is that people still struggle with Finance issues and immigration and it's hard for people to find jobs and another part of the problem is that pricings keep increasing and get more expensive. So people end up living in abandon and run down housing which is not safe or healthy.

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A connection for the reformers is that there are still people trying to help reduce poverty levels by donating or building a better community so people have a better safer and healthier place to live. A lot of organizations are also bringing a lot of attention to property and showing people the less fortunate and how to help.

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The only connection for the solution is that from the Progressive Era they made settlement  houses where people in property could live and now they're also building places for people in property to live but one  solution now that is different is they made food assistance housing assistance and family tax credit which has helped millions of people from going into poverty  which is something they didn't have during the Progressive Era.

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Many families couldn't afford to buy houses and they would usually live in rented apartments or crowded tenements. The buildings were run down, not safe, and caused health issues.

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Jacob A Riis was a photographer who brought the attention of poverty to the society by showing others photos. This helped because then many people joined to reform laws and improve living

Jane Addams helped immigrants in Chicago by buying a house with her friend Ellen Starr and turning it into a settlement house to provide for the poor people in the community.

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They made settlement houses to help provided for the poverty community it offered english classes, child care, and work training ect.