Poverty is a vague and ambiguous term. Many people define poverty in many different ways. Some view it as the literal lack of monetary funds, while others view it as the lack of overall “wealth” that includes the opportunity to obtain an education and, hopefully, in turn, obtain some form of monetary currency. For the sake of this article, the definition of poverty that includes opportunity and education will be used because it encompasses various aspects of being poor instead of simply focusing on monetary currency. When the general public thinks of poverty, they think of poor children starving in Africa. Poverty, however, is not limited to these foreign countries. Poverty in developed countries goes largely unnoticed by the media in the modern era. Most of the population focuses their time and energy on alleviating the poverty found in underdeveloped countries such as Somalia, Sierra Leone, Botswana and various other poor countries. However, what is not noticed by the majority of the population is that poverty is found, so to speak, in their own "backyards". Poverty in developed countries like Gary, Indiana, tends to go unnoticed. The question still remains: how can poverty exist in rich, developed countries? The majority of the population of the United States of America lives happily above the poverty line. However, there are several regions of the country where a large part of the population lives well below the poverty line. This poverty found in specific regions of developed countries is due to certain circumstances present in that region which are not present in the rest of the developed country. The city of Gary, Indiana is a great example of a city that lives in poverty. ..... middle of paper ...... ice Review 87.2 (2013): 250-268. Premier of academic research. Network. October 28, 2013. Luke Shaefer attended the University of Michigan and Kathryn Edin attended Harvard University, this is proof that they are highly qualified. They work for the National Poverty Center, which means they are probably impartial in the article. Terry, Don. "Where work disappears and dreams die." American Prospect 23.6 (2012): 48-61. Press. This article explains how the steel mill was the reason this city was growing and industrious, but when it closed it left almost the entire city in unemployment. Author Don Terry also wrote articles for the Columbia Journalism Review and was on the campaign trail with President Obama. It is possible that his association with the Democratic Party could create a bias in the article, however it appears to be very fact based and this is unlikely.