After reading these two reports that reflects the poverty in Illinois, I still cant comprehend why the poor pay at higher rate of taxes compared to one or a family that have the highest salary. Does that make any sense? What happened to the safety net that was preach and preach to the society that poverty issues should be resolved because of the proposal of the safety net. Excuse my language, what a bunch of BS! No matter how we look at it when looking at the stats of people in poverty; the children, the senior citizens, the disability, the undocumented people and women there is still a constant pattern. The blacks lead the polls with the Hispanics right behind who are the victims are being likely to experience living in poverty or extreme poverty. According to these reports, the Illinois people have less money to pay for their needs; the average weekly wages fell in 7 of the 11 job sector in Illinois from 2001 to 2007. (Amy Rynell and Amy Terpstra-Illinois Poverty Summit, page 4). I noticed that in this report that the prices of vital goods and services increased dramatically during 2001 to 2007. There is nearly 250,000 living in extreme poverty and over 400,000 are working along with 92,072 enrolled in school. (Laboratory for Community and Economic Development). What happened to the America slogan or model of education equals promise careers or dreams? It is reality that the mentality of work hard and education equals success is scarce to the point of being irrelevant. It is reality that blacks and Hispanics are structurally set up to living in unsafe and extreme conditions compared to any other ethnic groups. Why is this so? My response is that racism has never left this society, I am not saying that everyone is racist, i am saying that the ones who are calling the shots for the jobs market, banks and other resources needed to succeed in this society continue the ongoing discrimination tactic. Chicago has nearly 3million people and 1.5 million is living in poverty in Illinois, that is scary because Chicago is Illinois largest city and half Chicago population is the total number of poor in Illinois.
As poverty limits and restricts opportunity, What are the chances and opportunities for the ones who are at a disadvantage already at birth? With this being said, there is no healthy food to eat, senior citizens skip doses of required vital medication and adults have lack of shelter to housed themselves and family. I found that Illinois is one of the states that tax single and two parent families who are poor. Now where is this money going because it is not going to the communities that need it the most, the schools have limited or no resources resulting in students to perform poorly. What blow my mind is that the poorest families pay a 2.7 times tax rate than the families that have the highest yearly income in Illinois. ( Amy Rynell and Amy Terpstra-Illinois Poverty Summit, p.7) Now explain this to me, How is the government for the people and concern about the poor when the poor is paying a higher tax rate than the richest family. Seem like the structural of Illinois is set up for people to experience poor and increase the number of people to experience poverty; in addition to that especially the Blacks and Latinos. I noticed the poverty level in Illinois is 14,800 for family of four and 10,000 for family of three, now come on how can anyone or a family survive off that. That is like three hundred and some chance from each individual for a entire year-that is horrific, no one can live off that. The only solution to this critical issue of poverty is that we need a proposed collective effort and efforts from all people in the U.S to eliminate these unsafe and extreme conditions that deprive people of our nation their human rights, which is promised to them in our U.S Constitution; but that's another issue on hand. This issue is so painful and dishearten to contemplate that the future of Illinois is heading to ongoing hardship.
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