User:Go23bears/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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1. Homelessness in the United States

2. Poverty#Perspectives

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
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1. The Homelessness in the United States articles needs to be updated. In the "Efforts to assist homelessness" section there is only information to assist unhoused secure housing. The issue of homelessness is a lot more multifaceted than this. I would want to add a section on relational poverty as this is what my practice experience focuses on. I will write about the idea of shame that comes from an individualist culture in America that you fail if you are not successful and the importance community that comes from relations, and how the digital age can increase this relational divide

2. For the Poverty article, I would add to the perspectives section. "Perspectives" adds examples of what has lead an individual to be impoverished. I would want to add losing relational or family ties, or family mistreatment. From the research I did for my Needs Talk History, I can pull from data on this kind of loss of social support that causes impoverishment.

Evaluate the article
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 * 1) Homelessness in the United States:  It has been highlighted because of unreliable sources and its neutrality disputed. The section on comprehensive health care has particularly been flagged because it only writes on government systems of health care and speaks only to George Bush's bill in 2002. It could be interesting to add the Obama phones help to aid relational poverty here.  On the talk page one person wanted to include the role of spirituality. They argue that there isn't enough lived reality of homeless individuals and that there is only talk of the issue. There was also a comment on redistributing wealth however, a comment back said this is not a political discussion board
 * 2) Poverty. Interesting discussions on the poverty talk page was how poverty has been defined for various political reasons. Some definitions of poverty are based on wage while others are more experience based and measured on lack of resources. There are lots of different viewpoints on the Perspectives section that allows it to be relatively netural.