The Social Gap

In big urban cities like LA, you can't help but notice that there is a significant population of homeless people who are living right at the doorsteps of multi-millionaires.  Neither one of the groups of people interacts much with the other, almost like they live in separate worlds, despite the fact that they breathe the same air.  This socio-economic gap is not just a reality in Southern California, not even just in America, but you can see this in big cities all over the world.

Read this article about a man in London who experiences this first hand.  On the other hand, this article asks a 66-year old business owner “about the widening gap between rich and poor” and he says, “I think the definition of poor today is they don’t have a 50-inch flat-screen TV...How can you be poor, Tom… how can you say somebody is poor if they have a cell phone?”  Many people blame homeless people for not working hard enough and many other people blame rich people for not being philanthropic.

Write a blog post to explore this topic.  Include the following:

1.     Respond to the two articles above.  Who do you think is right? 

2.     Why do you think this gap between the rich and poor happens?

3.     Whose job is it to fix the gap?  Can it even be fixed?

4.     200-300 word minimum