1. By: Melanie Schafer
Poverty in
Isabella County

3. What is Poverty?
 Poverty
 The state of one who lacks a usual or socially
acceptable amount of money or material
possessions.
 State of being poor
 Lacking something
 Medical Poverty
 Debility due to malnutrition

4. Isabella CountIes Poverty rate

5. 31.4%

7. Beverly Cobb
 “A lot of charities here [Mt. Pleasant] are horrible
to the people that need them. I wanted to crawl
under a table and disappear because of how I was
treated at the Salvation Army.”
 “I’ve been living under the poverty line for a lot of
my life. From my birth in Louisiana to right now,”
Cobb said. “My worst living situation was when I
had to live in my car. I did it for about five years in
Mt. Pleasant with my two daughters. We ate meals
at the soup kitchen, got clothes from places like
the Salvation Army and washed up in the Chip
River.”
 “Everything happens for a reason I believe. One of
my daughters is in college now and she is studying
to be a social worker. I know she will be the best
one because she knows what it feels like to be
homeless and hungry”.

8. What Affects
Poverty?

9. CMU
Highest Poverty rate of
any Michigan county for
students
Population=21,332 of70,617
Loans
Tuition
Housing
Debt

10. Income
Decreasing
Lower than
Michigan’s average

11. 1. What poverty means
2. Isabella County’s poverty rate
3. Factors that affect the poverty rate

12. 7 People

13. Work Cited
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Population." Central Michigan Life. N.p., 16 Sept. 2013. Web. 19 Mar. 2014. <http://www.cm-
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population/>.
 Smith, Melissa K. "Ties That Bind: Poverty and Michigan's Economic Recovery." Michigan League
for Human Services. N.p., Dec. 2011. Web. 19 Mar. 2014. <http://www.milhs.org/wp-
content/uploads/2010/07/2011PovertyReport.pdf>.
 Patman, Logan. Homelessness in Isabella County. Wix site, n.d. Web. 19 Mar. 2014.
<http://patmo1ld.wix.com/loganthejournalist#!homelessness-in-isabella-
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 Lloyd, Eric. "Isabella County Holds Highest Poverty Percentage in State." 9&10 News. N.p., 8 Jan.
2014. Web. 19 Mar. 2014. <http://www.9and10news.com/story/24399835/isabella-county-
holds-highest-poverty-percentage-in-state>.
 “poverty." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, 2011.
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