Based on chapter 13 of A People's History of the United States, what is your understanding of poverty in the United States?

In Zinn's assessment of "The Socialist Challenge," the
experience of poverty leads to social unrest and people striking back.  Zinn does not
draw a picture of poverty where people are silenced and immersed in their own suffering
in a private manner.  Rather, he speaks of the Muckrakers, the IWW, and the NAACP, and
other organizations that rise out of the need to demand social change.  Additionally,
Zinn argues that the Progressive movement rises out of this need for the demand of
social change that comes from poverty and the conditions that cause poverty.  Zinn's
belief that the impoverished condition of America at the turn of the 20th Century was
the logical extension of unchecked and unrestrained capitalism.  For Zinn, this reality
is what prompted people to demand change out of these conditions and seek ways to remedy
the situation.  This form of change is representative of change coming from "the bottom
up," whereby social organizations organically rose from the people in order to seek
change to poverty and to ensure that individuals did not live a life of silenced
suffering.