Today I began exploring more web maps. One of the ladies in the Council on Aging at the office asked a question about connecting the location of elderly with poverty and food sources. This got me to thinking. I entered the GIS program because our family circumstances were being dictated by employment events in the real estate sector. If I could move out of a sector which will remain stagnant for several more years suppressing my own income, then I should in theory be able to get out of our poverty hole as well. Looking at this map, our former area of residence is smothered over in poverty, ugly thoughts.
Just a note about the link above. If you click on the brown words, click on individual state, it seems to work, sometimes.
Digging out of the whole picture, takes more than a shovel. It takes a direction, determination and pure guts. Standing firm on a new foundation, towards a solid goal, with grit, as someone said "Never Again." So to answer the lady. Where are the poverty stricken elderly with no food, probably, next door. Pictures are worth more than a thousand words.
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