Introduction to my blog

Hello. My name is Francesca D'Angelo. For this semester in sociology i decided to blog about poverty. Why? Because poverty has been a problem all around the world as long as we can remember!! This summer, my eyes were opened to what a big deal poverty is. I read the book The Glass Castle, which is about a young girl who lives in poverty her entire life. I also went to New York City for a couple of days and was confronted by the homeless on the street begging for money because they had no food. But the real question that has always left me wondering is "How did they become so poor?" "What did they go through to make them live a life in poverty?" Well, hopefully my research on this topic will bring me and all of my fellow readers to a better understanding of why poverty is happening, and how we can change it.