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Taquisha Block Ms. Frank Senior Capstone Period #1 Date: May 2, 2014

Combating Poverty

Did you ever think that you could be living in poverty or become homeless even if you have a good paying job? Chances of poverty can be minimized by guaranteed shelter, healthcare and education, can help to but not necessarily prevented. Poverty is common problem that has troubled the nation for many years, but it has changed over time. In the 1950s the American poverty rate was 22.4 percent. The numbers declined throughout the 1960s coming to a low rate of 11.1 percent in 1973. Over the years, poverty fluctuated between 11.1 and 12.6 percent. Then by 1983 the poor individuals was raised to 35.3 million. In 2000, the rate was 11.3 percent and from 2000 to 2004 it raised to 12.7 percent worldwide (National Poverty Center). About 1 billion children live in poverty. 640 million live without shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, and 270 million have no access to health services. Even today, there are still people struggling to find shelter, healthcare, and ways to feed and cloth their families (Global Issues). No matter the mean income, unemployment or overall prosperity there will always be people

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who are homeless and hungry. Despite being one of the most prosperous countries in the world, the United States is not immune. This social problem has various impacts on different institutions and people; however, there are feasible solutions that are available to minimize this social problem.

Comparing relative poverty levels between different countries does not sufficiently take into account the differences in standards of living. In reality it is more a measure of inequality. For example a person who is relatively poor in a rich country usually suffers less material deprivation than someone who is living in a country with low overall living standards. In these countries poverty can be more extreme, you are more likely to lack basic necessities and survival can be more of a struggle, but because the general living standards are lower in these countries, there may be less relative poverty i.e. less difference between the poor and the living standards of everybody else. This can lead to misunderstandings about the extent of poverty and run the risk of underplaying the severity of the poverty suffered by some groups, particularly in some new Member States. Of course, the worst situation is to be found in those EU countries with both a low overall standard of living and a high level of relative poverty (The European Poverty).

Why is poverty so hard to combat? Poverty is so hard to combat because some groups of people dont have educational back- up while growing up. Some groups of people had jobs, maybe good jobs, and were laid off. Some groups are dying because they cant get the medical care needed to

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survive. Today even with government is giving the homeless people shelter. Sometimes these shelters are so full they cant accommodate all those in need of a place to lay their heads, so you may find people sleeping under the freeways or on the streets. Sometimes people are still homeless and livings in poverty because they dont want to help themselves and they rather live off of the government money every mouth. Without shelters, jobs and help from many organization it would be even harder to combat poverty.

Some ways to help those in needs with getting out of poverty are as follows: (1). a good job with benefits, (2). a good education for all and (3). Provide free classes on tips for saving money so when they need it the most like a rainy day. I believe this can help allot of people find themselves again just with a little hand and a little push.

Not to be able to send your child to school when you know that some education is the only hope of success for that child and for your family. Mother Teresa

First step to alleviating poverty is to promote better school, families and churches a national conversation about poverty must include these critical institutions, while we may disagree on economic solutions. Travis Smiley acknowledges this much and encouraged that with voices like his we can start building consensus around issues crucial to the upward mobility of many poor and disadvantaged Americans (Reduce poverty by promoting school).

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What Mother Teresa is saying is without education you cant make it in the real world because in order to get a job or a good job with good benefits you would have to have some kind of a degree or a G.E.D. from high school to be successful in life.

What Travis Smiley is saying is that by promoting better schools, help from the churches, and his voice may encourage these people start building consensus around the issues? These people can improve their education and contribute more than they would have been able to before being helped. Some rich people think that they should not be responsible for helping people living in poverty and they should not be forced to help those people in needed. Some rich people believe since they worked hard for there money and should not have to waste their money on these less fortunate.

Why help poverty? Many people are still struggling with poverty and living without food and homes and healthcare. Poverty was and still is hard to combat because of the lack of education that the people receive when growing up. Another reason is that some of the Americans lost their jobs or some were laid off and didnt have any money saved up for a rainy day. There are many ways to help people out of poverty but its up to the people if they want the help to get off the streets, to go back to school, or to find a job to help them in the future. Also with the help from the churches and helping the poor shows that people do care about other that are in need.

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Poverty has been a consistent problem throughout history. There are some rich people who are hurting these lower class people meaning the people with no money. Poverty is a deadly issue that is killing our population slow and that we as the affected ones need to take actions against it. Even though there are a lot of people trying to combat poverty, its still impossible to combat it without the support of the rich countries.

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