Essay On Poverty In America
Poverty is not just a problem in America, poverty is not just a problem in foreign countries, poverty is not just among a certain race, poverty is a worldwide issue that can affect anyone, even your community. Seeing examples of poverty throughout life can be very emotional, it lives all around. Pretty much anywhere there are people who are homeless, maybe begging for food or money. People walking to get where they need to go because they can not afford a car or possibly gas. Seeing kids at school come in without a jacket on when it is snowing outside because their families can not afford a winter coat for them. These are all examples of poverty.
In America in the year of 2010, 15.1 percent of all Americans lived in poverty. The poverty rate in 2010 was the highest poverty rate in the U.S. since 1993. Each year …show more content…
Johnson declared "unconditional war" on poverty. The term "war on poverty" generally refers to a set of ideas proposed by Johnson's administration, passed by Congress, and implemented by his Cabinet agencies. When Johnson put it in his 1964 State of the Union address announcing the war on poverty he said "Our aim is not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it." Some of the programs that were apart of the War On Poverty were, Medicare and Medicaid which expanded Social Security benefits for retirees, widows, the disabled and college-aged students. The Food Stamp Act of 1964, which made the food stamps program. The Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Job Corps, the VISTA program, the federal work-study program and a number of other initiatives. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which established the Title I program subsidizing school districts with a large share of impoverished students, among other provisions. ESEA has since been reauthorized, most recently in the No Child Left Behind Act. ("Everything You Need to Know about the War on
In America in the year of 2010, 15.1 percent of all Americans lived in poverty. The poverty rate in 2010 was the highest poverty rate in the U.S. since 1993. Each year …show more content…
Johnson declared "unconditional war" on poverty. The term "war on poverty" generally refers to a set of ideas proposed by Johnson's administration, passed by Congress, and implemented by his Cabinet agencies. When Johnson put it in his 1964 State of the Union address announcing the war on poverty he said "Our aim is not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it." Some of the programs that were apart of the War On Poverty were, Medicare and Medicaid which expanded Social Security benefits for retirees, widows, the disabled and college-aged students. The Food Stamp Act of 1964, which made the food stamps program. The Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Job Corps, the VISTA program, the federal work-study program and a number of other initiatives. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which established the Title I program subsidizing school districts with a large share of impoverished students, among other provisions. ESEA has since been reauthorized, most recently in the No Child Left Behind Act. ("Everything You Need to Know about the War on