Teenage pregnancy affects Chicago in more than one way, especially in communities where the poverty level is higher. Poverty and teenage pregnancy seems to have a connection especially those with unwed pregnancies Unwed pregnancy reduces options in the future which cause poverty. A question that arises is does teenage pregnancy cause or affect poverty? At the Chicago Reporter, Megan Cotrell did a new study that connects income inequality and teenage births which focuses on cause and effect. (Facebook, 2015) The study focused on two things that many people may not take into account one that being a teenage mom makes you poor and two that we can fix the problem of teenage births through strategies like contraception and sex education. The research that was done also shows that family planning services such as Medicaid has had a positive impact on helping to lower the teenage pregnancy rate, but it has only made a small difference. “For policies like those to work, girls need to want to avoid becoming pregnant in the first place.” Said Kearney. (Facebook, 2015) Steve Bogira also did an article from the Reader called, “A Fire in the Family.” This article talks about an incident in which a young 19 year old girl dies while saving her three year old and one year old from a fire and it connects it to other dynamics like teenage pregnancy. There are certain questions that are asked such as, “Taking into consideration what a burden it can be to be a pregnant as a teenager, and why girls here in Chicago get pregnant so early?” This question is always shrugged off, but also tied to specifics such as cultural and economic reasons, as well as the reality that the entire burden of avoiding teen pregnancy is put on girls only. Many cultures, such as the Hispanic community, believe that if they do not speak about sex then it will not happen with their own children. Avoiding the subject of sex has been an approach that many families have taken, especially in the Hispanic community. Avoiding the subject does not help teenagers, it just makes them misinformed. Unfortunately then many adolescents are blind sided with all this dropped on them at once, when they become pregnant. They wonder if they even have a future at all after getting pregnant at such a young age. Whatever you have the opportunity to do, you need to do it as soon as possible if they even feel they have to opportunity to. Many feel that they are helpless and their live are over. Taking into consideration if teenage girls had enough information prior to becoming pregnant than they would not have babies at such a young age. This is where the global and local action comes into effect. If we would act locally to educate teenagers properly on safe sex than this would make a global change. Thinking globally and acting locally includes many factors such as planning ahead, the environment, education and business. In order to make a global change we must act locally first planning ahead with the communities in different environments and educating teenagers in order to prevent teenage pregnancy.