Meeting America‘s Three Basic Needs
I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad and ill-nourished. Almost every American can rattle off the three basic human needs – food, clothing and shelter. As a nation, how are we doing in meeting those needs? Are The Poor Meeting The Three Basic Needs?We have obviously come a long way since that day eighty-six years ago, when our nation was in the depths of the Great Depression. Today, upper- and middle-class Americans are doing quite well. It would also be fair to say that the basic needs of the working class are basically being met as well. But what about the poor and near-poor – the...