In District's Ward 8, economic recovery is a world away

[Jkid]

Despite the fact that I've been living in the State of Maryland for about seven to eight years of my life, I was born in Washington, DC. I'm saddened by the fact that despite having many Democratic and Black-American mayors in the city, many of it's social issues especially in economics and jobs has not been resolved. This article is a good example of this.
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While much of Washington starts to emerge from more than two years of recession, Angie Walker feels as if she's in the middle of a depression, stuck, without knowing quite how to get out.

Companies are beginning to hire, but Walker, who at 46 is struggling to find a full-time job, hasn't noticed. April found her driving 28 miles round trip from Southeast Washington to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where a temp agency had sent her for a kitchen job, pay $11.88 an hour. She was working about 24 hours a week but needed more.

With a high school degree and years of kitchen experience, Walker can get jobs. But they're almost always part time, low paying and temporary, leaving her among the 8.8 million Americans counted as underemployed.

Walker lives in the District's Ward 8, where she and many of her neighbors lack the beefy résumés with technical skills and college degrees that snag jobs in a slowly recovering economy. Often they're hobbled by poor transportation, lack of reliable day care, brushes with the law, substance abuse and isolation from the world of internships and job referrals -- problems that won't be fixed by classes in résumé writing or 9-to-5 dressing.

More here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/12/AR2010061204158.html
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This article showcases why people remain in poverty, but this does not extend to DC. The same problems that are in Ward 8 also applies to other poor areas of every major city in the US. Some of the issues are national in scope, and some are local in scope. But in the case of DC, I'm already fed up that the DC mayors in the past do little to solve the root causes of poverty in their own city.