Poverty Should Be Fixed

Poverty should be fixed Poverty is one of the most serious issues in the world. When one drives around Los Angeles, the person can easily find homeless people who beg for money on freeway off ramps or look for food in garbage cans. People should not neglect them being on the streets because it is unsafe and unclean. The rate of poverty consistently increases every year. Shah states “According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they ‘die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.’”(qtd. In Shah) Many people and organizations have tried to solve this imbalance but are unsuccessful because poverty continuously gives birth to more poverty due to the lack of inheritance available for younger generations. In the long run, our children are victims of poverty from previous generation. People should fix the poverty problem as soon as possible because it causes many negative effects such as unemployment, health problems, environmental quality and sustainability. If poverty problem is fixed, it will bring us to be able to take advantage of better economic situation, health problem, and environmental effect from helping them.

First of all, the government should help and train homeless people giving them a new job as long as they are physically able to do the work. This will be helpful and increase for the economic situation. For example, according to the film Waste Land, “These catadores lived and worked in the garbage, collecting and selling scrap metal and recyclable materials.”(Waste Land) This movie shows that homeless people can have a job, own a house, earn money and start a new life with the government’s helps. People can think this way that working in a landfill is dirty and even if I became a homeless person, I would not work in a landfill; however, in the movie, the