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Armstrong And Getty On Poverty In Fresno CaliforniaArmstrong And Getty On Poverty In Fresno California
Fresno has the highest concentration of extremely poor people.
Is that because of illegal immigrants? I am wondering if it is an illegal immigrant farmworker sort of thing? Why Fresno of all things?
Not a word is mentioned on this issue.
"Poor planning over decades is at the core of the problem.... Concentrating poverty compounds the effects of plain poverty." So the point is, if you are in one of these super poor neighborhoods, "it limits the chance the family will raise above the problems."
When you get $15 for a bus ticket, you must leave there, get out of there, go somewhere else, and start completely over. How could it be worse?
People left their own countries when there was no opportunity in their own country. People were willing to leave Italy, Ireland, Russia, but people won't leave Fresno? i don't understand it.
Children lack the money, role models, academic footing, that will get them into college.
IF you don't have an opportunity where you are, you have to move. If you can't get a job, you have to leave.
Nah, you stay, and condemn the next generation to poverty as well.
Caller: Jack you hit on it, there is a lot of ag in the outlying areas. But they live away from the ag, and concentrate in the downtown. There are these pockets of them. My folks live in Fresno, you can go two blocks away, there are barrios, the prices of the houses are so much different.
We're going to have shanty towns in california, two separate societies, different languages, at each other throats, that's what illegal immigration is going to bring us.
Caller Phil: I am not sure what the allure of Fresno is. It's flat. The water has been diverted for agriculture. My friends are college graduates. They are raising families there. I don't understand why they don't leave.
As if landscape equals happiness....
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