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Question: Major issues affecting the poor and marginalized communities
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Hi Jovell,
 
Welcome to the Community Tool Box and Ask an Advisor, we appreciate your question about the major issues affecting the poor and marginalized (we also call them socially excluded) communities. I hope we can provide you with directly applicable, useful, and timely information to guide your work. That said, your question is both complicated and challenging to answer because there are so many issues that affect poor, marginalized communities; much has been written about these issues and this writing can be accessed through Google or other search engines (simply type in "issues effecting poor and marginalized communities" as your search terms).
 
As you probably already know, the overly simplistic answer is that poverty is a manifestation of marginalization or social exclusion in that communities don't have equal access to the resources (e.g., income, financial capital, the means to produce goods, etc.) and political power that would improve conditions therein. However, it is so much more complicated than that as there are social, cultural, racial, political, economic, and historical factors that impact poverty and marginalization. So, to help you better understand issues of poverty and marginalization/social exclusion I've provided some resources from right here in the Community Tool Box that I hope you will find useful.
 
To better understand poverty, start on our home page by clicking the "Learn A Skill" button, top left of the page, then click on "Table of Contents" and scroll down to the section entitled "Implementing Promising Community Interventions." Next, click on "Chapter 23 - Modifying Access, Barriers, and Opportunities," specifically, "Section 4 - Extending Opportunities for the Poor."
To better understand marginalization/social exclusion, again begin on our home page, click on the "Learn A Skill" button, click on the "Table of Contents" and scroll down to the "Analyzing Community Problems and Designing and Adapting Community Interventions" section. Click on "Chapter 17 - Analyzing Community Problems and Solutions" and then, "Section 5 - Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Development" which provides some insights on marginalization/social exclusion.
 
So Jovell, I hope we've provided resources from within the Community Tool Box that will inform your thinking about poverty and marginalization (social exclusion), two issues that go hand in glove. Again, these are extremely complicated issues, but can be understood. With that, we thank you for your question and wish you the greatest success in your work. Be well, take care, and do good work.
 
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Question Date: mer, 05/25/2016