Problem 1: What actions can individuals take to alleviate poverty (e.g., voting, policy)? How do different social variables (e.g., race, class, and gender) affect poverty rates?
Problem 2: Compare and contrast poverty in different communities. There are larger proportions of African American and Hispanic Americans in poverty than Whites. However, there are greater numbers of Whites in poverty, according to John Creamer et al., in Poverty in the United States: 2021. What are the processes that might explain poverty for these different communities regionally? How do the processes that worsen poverty explain contexts in different countries?