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(Archive September 2016) Societal Issues Through Multiple Eyes

By Emily Boudreau | Observer Contributor

Candace Shivers, a Sociology Professor at Mount Wachusett Community College, talked about race relations and poverty being the two most important social issues of our time period. Poverty is affecting many different individuals today at an alarming rate. 

“People who are struggling do not necessarily fight against the people who have a lot of money, they fight against each other,” Shivers replied when asked why she thought poverty was so prevalent today. She talked about how every person should have a right to education and how poverty is a vicious cycle that is very hard to get out of.  read more