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- Poor Water Heightens the threat of COVID 19
- Many Homes settle for barley drinkable water sucked out of shallow wells
- Kids are missing out on fun things like field trips at school due to low-income families

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- Paul Gorski Founded equity literary institute and EdChange which help educators strengthen equity efforts
- Eugene Song: wants to increase basic healthcare for low income areas of the USA.

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The Current goal in the USA to stop poverty is to stop punishing people in schools for being low income. they are punished with things like not being able to afford field trips or out of school activities or even lunch. Another thing is how people in low income areas don't have access to clean water which can heighten the covid 19 threat.

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one of the biggest similarities between the 2 time periods od then and now are that Peoples lives are at risk back then and still are due to poverty.
Poverty has its own new problems now like how now poverty can lead to increased covid spreading rates which wasn't a problem back in the day. Back then people who lived in poverty were not educated about diseases and cures to the diseases.

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Some problems that occurred during the Progressive era were that the streets were crowded with trash and homeless people and people during this era were not able to afford basic things like food and clothes

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one big reformer during the progressive era was Jacob Riis who Built settlement houses for the people on the streets.
Another Reformer was Mother Cabrini who Built hospitals schools and orphanages for the poor

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both the reformers form then and now Made shelters for people in need and Want to end Unjust things against people in the USA with poverty.
One difference is with New Healthcare laws mean that new reformers will be pushing for that.

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One solution back in the day was that people like Jacob Riis Built Settlement houses for the poor in the bad areas of the usa.

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- Built shelters for the people living in poverty in the USA
- Diseases are now more dangerous and spread easier so these things are more looked at today rather than back in the day where people were not educated on things like medicine.