After listening to all the presentations today I realized how much I have learned so far about homelessness and poverty. Then it dawned on me that if it took almost an entire class to learn about homelessness and poverty how do we expect the rest of America to fix the problem if they don’t even understand the basics. It appears that most of the books and conversations we have had so far direct us to educate one another and ourselves on the issue in order to combat the problems. Seems pretty logical right? But how do you do that? Homelessness and poverty does not come up in my day-to-day conversations except with other people who I know are interested in sociology. I can’t imagine homelessness and poverty easily come up in others conversations as well. So this leads me to the question of how can we as college students begin to discuss and educate others and ourselves about this? Perhaps each of us can attempt to discuss homelessness and poverty in person with at least two people a week. Maybe week can create a fundraiser with education built in. Maybe we can even create a regular homelessness and poverty seminars with an incentive to come. There are so many possibilities to try and inform and discuss homelessness and poverty around us yet it is alarming that we don’t. How can we as students right now discuss and inform others about poverty and homelessness (other than the teaching project)?