Thesis
The problems of finding employment, dealing with Urban Crime and Race-Ethnics and how it has affected our cities, will be the focus of this paper. Handleman 2011, Kruger (2007), Urban Poverty, Mehta is the references have chosen to use to help explain the issue with Employment, Crime and Race in our Urban Communities. Urban crime is a major problem in Latin- America and the African Cities, but East Asia's major urban areas are generally safer than large Americans. Race also plays a role in regards to being poor. Contemporary Third World urbanization differs from the West's earlier urban explosion into important respects. Many of the poor who are unable to find work in the so-called formal sectors of the urban economy (the government and more modern, private-sector enterprise) turn to the informal economy for jobs (Handleman 2011).
FACTS AND FIGURES ON POVERTY
A quarter of the world's population, 1.3 billion people, lives in severe poverty...
• Nearly 800 million people do not get enough food, and about 500 million people are chronically malnourished. More than a third of children are malnourished.
• In industrial countries more than 100 million people live below the poverty line, more than 5 million people are homeless and 37 million are jobless.
• Of the world's 23 million people living with HIV/AIDS more than 93% live in developing countries.
• More than 840 million adults are illiterate - 538 million of them are women.
• In developing countries 160 million pre-school children are underweight.

Employment
The search for Employment in Urban areas, According to (Handleman 2011), and Contemporary Third World urbanization differs from the West’s earlier urban explosion in two important respects. One (1) way is the number of migrants and the size of the Third World cities, the Second (2); it occurred in an era of unprecedented industrialization and economic growth. According to our text, Modern capitalism was coming of age and could accommodate indeed required the wave of migrant and immigrant laborers. The Economy view of most contemporary LDC’s have fails to provide sufficient employment for their growing urban workforce. To be sure, many people find jobs, and some low-income workers achieve impressive upward mobility. Many of the urban poor who are unable to find work in the so-called formal sector of the urban economy turn in informal economy for jobs. This part of the economy is “unregulated by the institutions of society, in a legal and social environment in which similar activities are regulated and taxed. A lot of the workers are self-employed having jobs like garbage recyclers to shoeshine boys, street vendors, and plumbers. The world’s poor are the worst affected by urban crime and violence, insecurity of tenure and forced eviction, and natural and human-made disasters, regardless of their geographical location. “Over the past decade the world has witnessed growing threats to the safety and security of cities and towns. Some have come in the form of catastrophic events, while others have been manifestations of poverty and inequality or of rapid and chaotic urbanization processes,” said the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon Kruger, (2007).
Urban Crime
The urban crime rate has declined in the Unites Stated, unfortunately it has not been eliminated There are several resident in urban area that is still dealing with crime and on a daily basics. According to (Praticilation.org), Sprawling slums are now so commonly associated with cities like Nairobi that they have become unremarkable. Similarly, footage on television of children playing in open sewers, or of women picking their way through huge rubbish dumps is no longer shocking. It becoming something that we’re being exposed to often.
According to Kruger, S (2007), the study notes that over the past five years, 60 per cent of all urban residents in developing countries have been victims of crime. This is not, however, a uniform trend, as rates in North America and Western Europe are falling significantly, in contrast to those in Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Africa.
Urban Poverty Facts:
 Cities in the developing world will absorb 95% of the world's expected population growth between 2000 and 2030.
 According to recent estimates there are now over 900 million who people can be classified as slum dwellers.
 Based on 2001 estimates, 43% of the urban population in the developing world lives in slums. In the least developed countries, this percentage rises to more than 78%.
 If present trends continue, 1.5 billion people out of 3.3 billion urban residents will live in sums by the year 2020.
World population is increasing rapidly with three-quarters of the increase occurring in developing countries. Population growth within cities, and families moving from rural homes in search of a life offering opportunity and hope, means cities in the developing world grew by 2.67% per year in 2000-2005, compared to 1.21% for the world as a whole.
Unfortunately, infrastructure and basic service development have not increased at the same rate and in countries where sanitation, roads, water, and other services were already under-developed, towns and cities are struggling to accommodate the unprecedented upsurge in urban populations. The result is hundreds of millions of people living in overcrowded, neglected urban slums that pose serious risks to their lives. (Urban Poverty)
According to Mehta, D (2010),
A number of recent inter-governmental meetings related to reviewing progress on commitments made at major UN conferences, including the preparatory process of Istanbul+5, have identified a range of concerns about the present urban context. Some of these are:
• The worsening of access to shelter and security of tenure, resulting in severe over-crowding, homelessness and environmental health problems;
• Large and growing backlogs in delivery of basic service to urban residents as demand outstrips institutional capacity, financial resources and environmental carrying capacity;
• Increasing inequality in cities, manifested in stark residential segregation, increasing violence impacting disproportionately on women, the poor, and more generally intensifying poverty; and
• Lopsided economic growth displayed in the simultaneous evolution of high-end investments to attract foreign investment and an expanding informal economy with poor labor conditions.
Race Ethnics.
The American criminal justice system has a strong effect of many realms of society such as the family life, and employment. Education and race seem to be the most decisive factors when deciding who goes to jail and what age color has the greatest percentage chance of incarceration. African American race vs. other ethnics when going to jail. When I think about African American and or Minorities, in regards to our criminal system, it seems as if our jails have a lot more African American men, incarcerated. Race has always played a role in our everyday life. According to Handleman (2011), Cultural Identity involves a common set of values and customs and a shared sense of history and destiny. Race, while normally the most visible of ethnic distinctions, is more recent source of group identity. Cultural identity and how it involves a common set of values and custom. 1. Multiracial settings.
As the United States draws closer to becoming a nation with people of color in the majority, it is also moving into an economic and social program of privatization, cuts in social programs and real wages, restrictions on unionization, a focus on investment in export industries, an emphasis on balanced budgets, and a re-valuation of its currency Clarke, J. (n.d.)
According to (Handleman 2011 pg 106), Over time, however, if the Black living conditions do not improve and if there is not a sizable redistribution of economic resources, the ANC Black constituency may demand more radical policies.
To conclude this topic, there are so many factors that one might considered to have had a major affect on The Rapid Urbanization and the Politics of the Urban Poor. Hopefully I have explained why and how the urban poor still exist and how we can make the country a little more peaceful.

Reference page
Clarke, J. (N.D.) Race, Poverty, and the Environment
Introduction: Globalization Comes Home. http://urbanhabitat.org/rpe
Handleman, H. (2011). The Challenge of Third World development, Sixth Edition
Urban Poverty. http://practicalaction.org/the-problem-1
Kruger, S (2007) The world’s urban poor suffer most from crime, violence and disasters. http://www.citymayors.com/society/urban-crime-07.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_inequality_in_the_American_criminal_justice_system