Improving Poverty in African American Communities

Poverty is an issue in African American communities nation wide. New media can help spread the word about this issue to the public. New Media involves various different media related services that can help make readers, listeners, and viewers more aware of currency related issues that occurs in African American communities. A lot of neighborhoods that are financially improvised are ones whom residents are on public assistance. One way our new media sites  can suggest to get help for the people living in these communities is by getting word out to the public that jobs need to be created in this area to help the poverty issue. There are also websites that are already in existence that support this claim such as: (http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art8507.asp). The poverty issues leads to other factors in which African American communities are are the downfall for example it leads to crime. Once the ball gets rolling with eliminating one of the major factors which are holding African American communities down, the less difficult the task will be on improving these communities.

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