What Is Poverty Jo Goodwin Parker Summary

Breaking Silence
In her article “What is Poverty?” Jo Goodwin Parker exposes the struggles that families in poverty endure on a daily basis. The idea that herself, as well as her family are in a vicious cycle of poverty in which there is nothing but dreaming for the bare essentials many of us take for granted. Parker argues that she wants people to grasp an understanding of poverty; she emphasizes the challenges of taking care of her children in her position, yet she is stuck, as there are very few that understands the lengths that people in her situation have to endure with limited resources.
Parker describes the smell of poverty of being blatantly horrid. A smell in which she has no control over as in order to eradicate the smell she