1967 to Present, Nothing has Changed

A little over 40 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. had planned on making a second march on capitol hill, but this time it was to be not about civil rights in America, but about the ridiculously high amount of Americans in poverty. The number of Americans living in poverty in 1967: 40 million. The number of Americans living in poverty now: 40 million. Although the country has become more populated, this is still a ridiculous amount of people.

Dr. King saw that poverty was not a civil rights campaign, it was something that had the ability to oppress everyone, and therefore should be much easier to unite a nation under the cause of eliminating poverty once and for all. Unfortunately, under this aspect of life, we really have failed the great Martin Luther King Jr. Poverty is rising, and it needs to be stopped. With all these new government reforms, Obama is doing an okay job of keeping his attentions focused on Main Street as opposed to Wall Street, but doing this alone is not going to get the job done. The knowledge of our nation's poverty needs to get out and reach the nation so we can do something about this nationwide problem.