Payette Poverty Essay

In the United States and in countries all over the world, poverty takes extreme deficits to the country's population. Throughout my life I have began to notice these deficits take toll on my community of Payette. I chose this topic because growing up in a small community you really get to see the best and worst of everyone. This includes those who may not have as much money as you. When you are younger it isn’t something you notice much of the bad that is happening but as you grow up you see if through your friends and their family members. As I grew up that was what I saw, I saw the effects of poverty really start to hit them harder than I had ever noticed before. I also based my senior project off the fact that those in this community suffer so
I have seen many students at the high school level walking around with the backpacks I helped make. Overall it may not have been much but knowing I helped out one student really made my day. However this project goes back to the problem of poverty. I not only chose this project just to help people out but for the reason that poverty is a very real subject that most people try to skim over. Poverty occurs in all walks of life and can happen at any time. But it so frequently happens to those who did nothing to deserve it, children. There are so many different types of poverty, however all these types cause many different effects to people, these different types include, generational, situational, absolute, relative, urban and rural poverty. These six different types of poverty take their toll on all sorts of people and can damage children in many different forms. Through the different kinds of poverty, children suffer, whether it be in their education or their homelife, children go through just as much of the poverty cycle as adults. Luckily there are people out there to help protect our