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Poverty that is happening right now is from rising living costs, low pay, lack of work, and inadequate social security benefits, poor education, climate change, and lack of infrastructure. Also 37.9 million American lives are in poverty, accounting for 11.6% of the total population.

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The Migration of people into cities enriched some people but caused severe problems like Crowded tenements. They had low quality living conditions, lack of health care and education.

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Jane Adams setup settlement houses to help people live in better conditions than they were before, they had healthcare , childcare, education, and employment resources.

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Jacob A. Riis took pictures to expose the poor conditions people were living in. The pictures had people crammed in little spaces with no food, air condition, and windows too.

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In America there is still poverty still happening and we still have some crowded tenements too. Also people still have low-quality living conditions too.

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Jacob A. Riis posted those pictures of the crowded tenements and it inspired many people to join in efforts to reform laws and improve living conditions in slums.

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Reformers: Bill Gates and Melinda Gates 

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Reformers: Bill Gates and Melinda Gates 

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Bill and Melinda Gates helped the people in poverty by setting up foundations.

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Settlement houses were established in other urban areas, it offered opportunities such as English classes, childcare and work training to community residents.

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Bill and Melinda Gates launched a foundation called Gates Foundations which focuses on global health and development.

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All of the reformers that helped in poverty either back then or now all helped with the poor living conditions.

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People have either set up or given these people in poverty with either settlement houses or foundations to improve health and living conditions in America.