4th Summary draft President Obamas policies In an article presented at The New Work Times: What Does Obama

Really Believe In, Paul Tough, the author of this article, critically analyzes poverty problems in urban places such as Roseland and defends President Obamas position on policies efficiently by showing facts and explaining undiscovered truth. In Roseland, since all white residents moved away, this place becomes an indifferent and dangerous city, meaning it has a high unemployment rate, dropout rate, murder rate or violence rate, and emptiness of the streets. For instance, many students were facing too many social problems that couldnt deal with in their home and Youth Advocate Program, which is made of mentors for public high students. For this reason, the people who work for YAP felt hopeless, depressing, and very far from the nations attention. As Tough mentioned above, even though it is a very serious problem in the places like Roseland, politicians didnt care and didnt even want to bring this issue up because it is one of the most sensitive issues. However, President Obama played a critical role in his personal and political history as he worked in Roseland and at low-rise housing project called Altgeld Gardens. Tough also draws attention to the fact that, unlike other previous presidents or politicians, President Obama is only one who has really helped poor people and fought against poverty as his first major policy, solving the urban poverty. Tough advocates Obama administration approaches on antipoverty policies such as raising minimum wage, improving outcomes for children, and concentrating money in low-paid citizens. Indeed, education is a long-term solution to poverty however, more importantly; the

social factors like more stable and capable homes will improve the status of education. For this problem, President Obama proposed a Youth-counseling network for children as a solution. Tough also corroborates another Obama administration which spent a lot of money in the hands of low-income Americans. Moreover, he illuminates why it is more effective on economics: Because poor people spent their money mostly on food product, that money goes right into a financial market. It will eventually remove financial crisis in our country. He contradicts the fact those statistics shows that poverty has grown worse under Obama. It is not true because it only includes not noncash income but cash income. For instance, the way the federal government gives aid to poor is noncash transfers such as food stamps, Medicaid subsidies, housing vouchers as he mentions. Lastly, Tough reaffirms that the antipoverty strategy is now needed in order to save poor people because its more comprehensive and ambitious, and he admits that it is hard to get votes from middle-class citizens if President Obama makes them pay extra money to help the truly disadvantaged. However, he strongly demands that it should be done, and someone has to do it in order to solve the problems in Roseland.