Rags-to-Riches: Wrongfull accusations

During 1991, My uncle was wrongfully convicted of a crime he didn't commit what made the matter worse was he was already being targeted by police for his past gang affiliations. My uncle's story is a different type of rags to riches because he went from being involved in gangs as a teenager then going to jail for a crime he did not commit to being released and now today he is basically doing way better than before. In 1990 my uncle was stopped and arrested for suspicion that he had something to do with a gas station robbery that happened when he was at work, while at the police station he was placed in a line up and the store manager chose him out of 6 others as the man who robbed him with a loaded firearm during the next few months he went to trial after trial with a very unexperienced attorney. The verdict should have been innocent especially with the very low amount of evidence that was found like no fingerprints, car matches, or of cameras showing he was at the gas station at the time the crime was committed. He was sentenced to 3 years in a Florida  jail, He continually  pleaded his innocence writing letters to everyone from President Bill Clinton to the NAACP. When his judge  received one of those letters, he appointed a new lawyer for him. My uncle was nearly done serving his prison sentence by the time the matter went back before Backman. The judge threw out the conviction. Even after he was let out of prison he had trouble getting back to his regular life he got divorced while he was in jail and the time he lost with his kids he couldn't get back after being locked up. Over the years he had different happening for him but when he won his most recent case that would allow him to be for his attorney bills and get money for the years he was in jail and being a innocent man. I've seen him improve and be a better person over the years and from making below minimum wage to owning his own company and having is own house with his soon to be wife.

Poverty in America

 The definition of poverty is defined as the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty in the United States has been a real trending issue over the years it also has made a large increase, For example during the late 1950s, the poverty rate for every American was 22.4%. The numbers declined slowly throughout the 1960's, reaching a low of 11.1 percent in 1973. Over the next ten years, the poverty rate continually moved between 11.1 and 12.6%, it began to rise steadily again in 1980.In 1983, the number of individuals in poverty had risen 15.2 percent. For the next ten years, the poverty rate remained above 12.8 percent, growing larger to 15.1 percent, or 39.3 million individuals, by 1993. The rate declined for the remainder of the decade, to 11.3 percent by 2000. From 2000 to 2004 it rose each year to 12.7 in 2004. Since the late 1960s, the poverty rate for people over 65 has fallen dramatically. The poverty rate for children has historically been somewhat higher than the overall poverty rate. The poverty rate for people in households headed by single women is significantly higher than the overall poverty rate. From 2009 to 2010 the poverty rate increased to 15.1 percent in 2010, up from 14.3 percent in 2009 and the highest level since 1993, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's annual Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage report for 2010. An additional 2.6 million people landed in poverty in 2010, bringing the total to 46.2 million. The highest number since the government started tracking poverty in the 1950s. Poverty in America will continue to increase unless people try to help out the ones who are less fortunate in their community's.