Title: Increase In Extreme Poverty Leaves Millions Stranded | HuffPost
Headings: Increase In Extreme Poverty Leaves Millions Stranded
Increase In Extreme Poverty Leaves Millions Stranded
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Content: He quit that job to take a position at the hotel. It paid only $10 an hour, but it was close to his apartment, making it possible for him to accrue more hours because he was able to work on short notice. But the hotel was itself struggling. For weeks at a time, management told him not to bother coming in. “There were no business meetings,” Newton said, “no people coming into the hotel.” When he lost that job six weeks ago, he had no savings to fall back on, forcing him to borrow from friends just to make the rent on his subsidized apartment. He has been looking for work day after day, but has come up empty, frustrated that all the better paying jobs — at medical offices, where his resume shows experience — seem to be out in the suburbs. Employers seem reluctant to take a chance on a guy who lives in the city, with questionably reliable transportation. Newton is a single, young African-American man living in a time in which the unemployment rate among single African-American men 25 years and older is 21 percent. He went to college for a couple of years, and now he is searching for a way to resume his studies, researching possible sources of grant money.