Society has been battling one of today's greatest social problems for over a decade. Poverty is relentless across our nation and around the world. Today we find that poverty is a trending issue for ethnic minorities in the United States. Two articles, More Than Just Nickels and Dimes: A Cross-National Analysis of Working Poverty in Affluent Democracies and The Geography of Exclusion: Race, Segregation, and Concentrated Poverty, are from an academic journal. While I gleaned more information from two popular articles on the National Poverty Center website | University of Michigan and racial and ethnic disparities among low-income families. The articles put into perspective how poverty is a growing problem in the United States. The first article I reviewed was The Geography of Exclusion: Race, Segregation, and Concentrated Poverty. Lichter et al. stated that “the twenty-first century began with a great recession that led to stock market crashes, declining home prices, high foreclosure rates, and rising unemployment rates” (Lichter, et al. 2012 ). In 2000, 32 million Americans lived in poverty, and by the end of the decade, 46.2 million. Over half of these people belong to ethnic minorities. Overall, poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanics are three times higher than those for whites. This has raised the issue of targeted concentrated poverty (Lichter et al. 2012). Thirty percent of poor Americans live in poor places, which supports the idea of ​​concentrated poverty. Lichter et al. (2012) believe that too much time has been spent studying and helping people in urban centers while neglecting the rural poor. The second paper More Than Just Nickels and Dimes: A Cross-National Analysis...... middle of paper .. ....itedBrady, David, Andrew S. Fullerton, and Jennifer Moren Cross. “More than just nickels and dimes: A cross-national analysis of in-work poverty in wealthy democracies.” Social Problems 57.4 (2010): 559-585. Print.Harris, David R. and Ann Chih Lin. "National Center on Poverty | University of Michigan." RSS. The University of Michigan, nd Web. 6 April 2014. .Lichter, Daniel T., Domenico Parisi, and Micheal C. Taquino. “The Geography of Exclusion: Race, Segregation, and Concentrated Poverty.” Social Problems 59.3 (2012): 364-388. Print.Simms, Margaret , Karina Fortuny and Everett Henderson. “Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Low-Income Families.” Racial and ethnic disparities among low-income families. Urban Institute, nd Web. 6 April. 2014. .