People of low social economic levels are seems to find usually involve in illegal activities and as far as drug dealing is concern, nearly 40 percent people are involve in this crime. After 1960, urban poverty and decay gradually displaced the concerns of working groups atop the national agenda. It was when destitution became uncommon, after the rapid income gains of the 1940s and 1950s, that it became an anomaly, in need of explanation and redress.
As an issue, poverty also became separable from the concerns of the working class, since few steady workers were now poor. However, poverty that was exceptional also changed its character. Traditionally, destitution had been widespread but was seen as impersonal; the causes lay in a downturn in the business cycle or the decline of a particular region or industry. Poverty was also transient for many, passing as prosperity returned. Before the Depression, probably no more than a quarter of poverty could be attributed to personal problems.
After 1960, destitution became more personal in character, hence harder to solve. It was often chronic rather than episodic, persisting through generations, even in the midst of prosperity. This was because it was now usually due in the first instance to the personal difficulties of the poor themselves, and only secondarily to their environment.
Some of this more passive poverty was genuinely new; it also became more visible as the rural poor migrated into urban areas, where more affluent Americans could notice. Blacks migrated from the rural South to Northern cities, Hispanics from Latin America and Puerto Rico to the cities and the Southwest. Like earlier immigrants from overseas, the newcomers had difficulty adjusting to American urban life. For obscure reasons, the new groups proved less assimilable than the old. The lower echelon of black and Hispanic society.........
