Undisputedly poverty has been one of the major persistent social problems in the United States for hundreds of years. Poverty does not discriminate against Caucasians‚ African-Americans‚ Hispanics‚ Jews‚ homosexuals‚ heterosexuals‚ age‚ gender‚ or persons with disabilities. Poverty can strike any population‚ community‚ ethnic group‚ and family. According to the U.S Census Bureau‚ 43.6 million people were in poverty in 2009 which was an increase from 2008. (Insert citation for website). There are
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Global Poverty Around the world‚ in rich or poor countries‚ poverty has always been present. In most nations today‚ inequality--the gap between the rich and the poor--is quite high and often widening. The causes are numerous‚ including a lack of individual responsibility‚ bad government policy‚ exploitation by people‚ and business with power and influence or some combination of these and other factors. Many feel that high levels of inequality will affect some social cohesion and lead to problems
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Factors of Poverty No one universally accepted definition of poverty exists because it is a complex and multifaceted phenomena. Poverty is borne out of economic factors that include a lack of access to secure employment‚ insufficient income‚ and a lack of assets‚ especially that of real-estate. There are social structural elements and psychological factors that both contribute to‚ and have a tendency of perpetuating poverty. While both of these contribute to poverty they are very different
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Is poverty a crime? By: Kendra Curran Poverty is a crime to a certain degree‚ although in saying that it’s not a crime to be poor‚ and he who is poor is not a criminal. The bottom line is though we as a human race strive‚ struggle and fight; often work as much as we can so we will never be in poverty. For poverty can run through all class‚ even to the very wealthy‚ but that doesn’t mean that they don’t give everything they have to get out of poverty. For stated by a man named Carlyle
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Three main causes of poverty Poverty‚ the stage of being indigent or extremely poor is the common phenomena of the world. Today about one-fifth of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty. For example‚ Indonesia‚ Filipina‚ Africa and Afghanistan. They don’t have adequate food‚ water‚ sanitation‚ education or healthcare‚ poverty may leads to dead and extinct. The causes of world poverty are widespread diseases‚ geographical location and unethical company. Firstly‚ widespread diseases is
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issues and problem Professor: Rev. Fr. Eugene Elivera Topic: POVERTY What is Poverty? * POVERTY is deprivation‚ a lack of access to food‚ shelter and safe drinking water. * Is the state of condition of having or no money to buy goods and to provide services to satisfy ones basic needs. * A social scientist defines human poverty as the “denial of choices and opportunities for living a tolerable life”. Nature of Poverty The Philippine is considered one of the richest countries in
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Poverty: An African Crisis Today‚ 300 million African people live on less than $1 US per day (World Bank). The incidence of extreme poverty never seems to go down‚ despite decades of work by African governments and NGOs‚ outside NGOs‚ and foreign government aid programs. What causes this entrenched poverty‚ on a continent rich with natural resources? Unfortunately‚ poverty in Africa doesn ’t result from just one or two causes. There are a number of different factors at work‚ all interacting with
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Poverty in Canada Sociology 1000: Writing Assignment 11/26/2012 Cassandra Vincent How can there be so many people in poverty? It is all around us even though Canada has made the G20 Richest Nations; they still have one of the highest poverty rates for in the industrialized world. Through reading many articles such as Ann Duffy and Nancy Mandell’s “Poverty in Canada”‚ others that I have found online‚ and my own personal experience I have learned the numerous reasons why so many people in
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different range of welfare benefits available to families with young children and the impact this can have. I will be looking at the different sources of advice and guidance relating to welfare benefits in the area and the pro’s and con’s of such services. I will discuss why some families do not claim the full range of benefits available to them. There many benefits the government has made available to families and their children‚ when someone is expecting a child they are entitled to free milk tokens
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Poverty is the state of being without the necessities of daily living‚ and often associated with need‚ hardship and lack of resources across a wide range of circumstances. Poverty has wide-ranging and often devastating effects. Many of its effects‚ such as malnutrition and starvation‚ exposure to infectious diseases and mental illness and dependence to drug‚ result directly from having too little income or too few resources. As a result of poor nutrition and health problems‚ infant mortality rates
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