Madagascar, Africa, By Madagascar

17. Put the following regions of the country in order from the highest poverty rate to the lowest poverty rate: Midwest, Northeast, South, and West.

In America Mississippi has the highest poverty rate in America. Compared to Hawaii, Maryland, and Massachusetts which have a lower percentage of low income residents. Wealthier states have super high percentage rates of low income residents in deep povert.In 2013 the federal poverty line for a family of 4 was $23,550 while deep poverty was living on less than $12,000 per year. The bigger problem is that rich states in deep poverty have reduced their overall poverty rates.

An equally important factor in determining where poverty manifests itself is the economic opportunity available in a certain region. Hillbilly Elegy makes

Poverty affects millions of people living in the united states, poverty is measured by the amount of money needed to support the basic needs of a house hold. Poverty is measured by the SSA low-cost food budget assuming 1/3 of the budget is spent on food. The people with the highest percentage of poverty is shown to be Hispanic female households with no spouse present. The vast majority of people in poverty are women and children but in recent years the numbers of women considered poor have raised. Percentage rate is the percentage of poor in different counties. Looking at graph that maps Americas diversity shows that the highest poverty rate is in the South the Midwest has the least. I would assume that has to do with the weather, warmer weather

8) Disease has contributed to the poverty in many African countries, such as Zambia. This has occurred because the welfare of the people is low, therefore productivity is low, resulting in a poor

The authors goals in the book as stated in the book Made in Madagascar (Walsh, 2012, p. 103) “is to offer a distinctive perspective on the global systems and processes that shape so much of the world”. The author achieves his goal by breaking down the world within Madagascar by going in depth of the different industries such as sapphire mining and trade and ecotourism. Furthermore, Walsh explains his explains the evaluation of Madagascar from being a small island with a small population to a much larger population mainly due to the mining of Sapphires to the population decreasing once the area was over mined and the prospectors left the island due to lack of opportunity. The author clearly describes in the book that the ecosystem is unlike any in the world and how it was on the verge of being destroyed by people looking for opportunity by extracting the areas sapphires and other natural resources (Walsh, 2012, p. 3).

The Malagasy are of mixed Malayo-Indonesian and African-Arab ancestry. Indonesians are believed to have migrated to the island about 700. King Andrianampoinimerina (1787–1810) ruled the major kingdom on the island, and his son, Radama I (1810–1828), unified

The state of Arkansas is in poverty because of low rates and wages verses cost of living. However, this can be improved by people in our state having better job choices and better pay. The reason for low job rates and wages is that you have to be bilingual to get a job, you have to get a good education and employers aren’t able to hire as many people to work for them. All of this stuff combined with the cost of living causes poverty.

Poverty After living seventeen full years in Oskaloosa, 8 of them I have been able to discover things about this town that desperately need changing. One of the main things being poverty. Poverty is something that takes place in any town or city, not just Oskaloosa. I believe that with hard work and dedication comes the solution to a problem.

South: Everyone knows that the South is the region that gets hit the hardest. All we do is export cash crops, then buy foodstuffs and manufactored goods with the little revenue that the farmers recieve.

Wake county, where I am from, in 2015 has a poverty rate of 11.7 percent. It is a lower rate than expected because I knew North Carolina had higher poverty rates than the U.S, but after research it makes sense why. Wake county has multiple populated cities with many job opportunities; therefore, allowing greater income compared to other counties. Through 1997 to 2015, Wake county had about a $10,000 to $20,000 higher median household income than the North Carolina median. Wake county is also a higher concentrated area that creates resources and accesses to those resources. Better opportunities with better pay and more resources readily available may contribute to a lower poverty rate in Wake county than others.

Terrain was most likely the biggest barrier as it was rough, full of forest, and caused isolation. As time has passed more barriers have been added; isolation from help, lack of federal funding, lack of education, less jobs,unemployment, poverty, lack of progress within the region, and sterotyping, etc. Several of these barriers tend to fall back onto the other which creates a downward spiral. For example; lack of funding affects the education system which affects employment which in turn affects job creation which creates poverty. “Although unemployment in the region among working-age adults was only slightly higher than the national average of 6.4 percent during the period, it was at least 10 percent in 36 counties”(Scommegna,2015).

There is a lot of states in America that struck by poverty due to not having good economic progress in their cities for their ethnicity.

Pockets of extreme poverty are also scattered in U.S. cities. According to a recent study by the Brookings Institution, the city with the most concentrated poor population is Fresno, California; followed by New Orleans, even before hurricane Katrina hit; Miami, and Atlanta.

Cherokee county is one of the poorest counties in the state and has a child poverty rate of almost 31%, neighboring Adair county has 37%. According to the Oklahoma Kids Count Factbook, the counties in the Cherokee Nation jurisdictional boundaries rank from 38 to74 out of 77 counties