A major problem that drives poverty in America is the dissociation that community members have with the poor within their community. In today's globalized economy, and expanding technology, its harder than ever to connect with each other in an immediate and intimate way. Poor people are limited from participating and connecting with the larger community on many levels; yet people, poor or not, need to feel connected to themselves and the community in order to establish and maintain their overall well-being.

Author Arthur C. Brooks declares that American's perception of the poor is a harmful one of exclusivity in​"America Cant Fix Poverty Until It Stops Hating Poor People" . Brooks claims that seeing the poor as outsiders actually creates the systematic antipathy that drives poor people further toward the fringes of society. His solution, which I have adopted for this show, is to try and change the way that we see the poor.