Galbraith/The Posotion of Poverty

1.why is modern poverty different from what of a century ago?
The modern poverty is different from a century age, because now more people are living in poverty. Galbraith points out there are two kinds of poverty which are case poverty, and insular poverty. Vase poverty is when an individual is poor and live in poverty due to many defects that he/she may have for example no education, mental issues, and as Galbraith mentions alcoholism or discrimination. Insular poverty is when a group, island, or majority live in poverty. In today’s society(modern poverty) I think it’s a major issue on insular poverty because a city like Detroit for example is an insular poverty which leads the country of unemployment. These are the people who don’t have a job, live off social security, and welfare. The people who do have a job get paid minimum wage living paycheck by paycheck to feed themselves and their children. I would say a century age everyone was pretty much living off the same income, it didn’t matter how much education you had, you just had to learn how to read, write, and count. But it did matter whether you were black or white. It seems like a century ago or doing slavery the white’s were the bourgeoisie and the black’s were the proletariat. Now ,any race can either be described as case poverty or insular poverty as Galbraith said “Race which acts to locate people by their color rather than the proximity to employment”(Galbraith 408). Galbraith mentioned in the reading that there can be certain steps that can eradicate(erase: abolish) poverty which I disagree. I think that there will always be poverty, like their will always be wealth. Poverty and wealth is not a choice it’s the way society is. People are not born rich their parents may be but the child is not, same with poor or low income people who live off welfare. These people or children live in poverty because that’s the way they grew up so its not chosen. I understand what Galbraith tries to say but in order to eliminate poverty everyone has to have a job that pays well, and live in urban cities.