Millard Fillmore: Extreme Poverty

Poverty, the state of being extremely poor, exists all over America! There are several different types of poverty, and the causes of poverty. Most people think of poverty as just somebody who is homeless and has no job, somebody who has no money to support the basic needs of life, and wears ragged clothing and lives under a bridge. What people don’t know is there are people living in poverty that have jobs and make money but live so poorly that they are categorized with people that live in absolute poverty.

William McKinley was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio, a town of about 300 people. He was the 7th child born to William and Nancy Alison McKinley His family moved to Poland, Ohio when he was nine years old so that the children could go to a private school called the Poland Academy. In school William liked to read, debate, and he was the president of the school’s first debate club. When he was 16 he went to Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, for a while before he got sick and had to return home .he did not go back to Meadville, because the family had no money. Instead, he worked as a postal clerk for awhile.

Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25th, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. His father was a hand loom weaver and Chartist. Carnegie believed in the importance of birthplace. “I was supremely so in

Clark Mills was born in Taylor but the information available to us does not give us a definitive date. Suffice it to say that it was between 1810 and 1815. His father died when he was just five years old and then he was placed with an uncle. This was typical of the time as women had few options to provide

staggering? Poverty occurs when a person’s need for food, clothing and shelter are not being

In the essay What is Poverty written by Theodore Dalrymple, he conveys the message that living in poverty in first world countries differs from living in poverty in third world countries. Poverty is a term that is relative to the country's economic standard. It will always exist as long as there is a higher class with more economic wealth and will always vary depending on the country.

In 1964 President Kennedy started the process of making a substantial effort to eradicate poverty when he received a memo showing that the number of families that were poor at that time (which was below the $3000 threshold) would remain poor even with full-time work if changes were not made (Haveman, R ( 1 ), Blank, R ( 2 ), Moffitt, R ( 3 ), Smeeding, T ( 4 ), & Wallace, G ( 5 ), 2015). He also directed that antipoverty measures be included in the 1964 legislation when awareness of the plight of more than 40% of blacks living in poverty was made (Haveman, R ( 1 ) et al., 2015). After his untimely assassination President Johnson moved the plan forward signing the Economic Opportunity Bill into law in 1964 (Haveman, R ( 1 ) et al., 2015). A total of $800 million (equivalent to $6 billion in today’s dollars) was appropriated to the Executive agency Johnson created to address and oversee the programs that were to be used to combat poverty (Haveman, R ( 1 ) et al., 2015). Many of the programs had existed prior to 1964 but these efforts were targeted to “provide direct services to the poor, promote the development of human capital and stimulate social and community change.” (Haveman, R ( 1 ) et al., 2015) Medicaid was also created to provide for the poor and the farm community helped to expand the Food Stamp program (which also helped address concerns about food surplus), and Housing subsidy was expanded as well and most, if not all, of these programs continue in some form

     He was born in New York City on October 27, 1858 into a rich Dutch family. He was always a cowboy at heart. Even though he was born in a big city his cowboy side and his passion for adventure would come up later in his life. His father taught him to go for his goals, to follow a strict Christian moral code, and to enjoy the life of the mind. His father taught him that the mind was the strongest tool

He was a “Captain of Industry” and a “Robber Baron”. Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland on November 25, 1835. Carnegie grew up poor. The family left Scotland for the United States. They left because of a lack of business in the textile mill and the potato famine in Ireland. The Carnegie's moved to Pittsburg to be closer to other family members. His family didn’t have the money to send him to school and graduate. He began working at a textile mill at age twelve. Andrew Carnegie was thirteen when he came to the United States with his family.They settled in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and Carnegie went to work in a factory, earning $1.20 a week. Carnegie found a job as a telegraph messenger. He was 16 when he decoded the dot-dot message and

Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in Waxhaw, a wooded frontier region in South Carolina. Growing up, Jackson never received any proper education. Jackson only received basic fundamentalist education until the age of 13. At the age of 13, Andrew Jackson became a messenger for the Patriot because of the American Revolutionary. In 1787, Andrew Jackson studied law at Salisbury. In the following year, he moved to Western District of North Carolina which is in Tennessee and became a prosecutor. Afterwards, he started gaining a fortune and later married Donelson Robards in 1791. On June 1796, he got elected to The House of Representative. The next year, Jackson resigned from the House of Representative and won the U.S senate. 1798, Jackson

James Buchanan was born in April 23, 1791, Cove Gap,Pennsylvania, in a log Cabin just outside of Mercersburg. He was the son of Irish immigrants who had made a successful life for themselves as merchants in rural Pennsylvania. His family could afford to send him to good schools. Buchanan received most of his education at the Old Stone Academy in Mercersburg. He graduated in 1809 with honors from Dickinson College. Soon, he moved to Lancaster to study law. Both his political and legal careers moved forward. Buchanan began to grow into a

The early years of Millard Fillmore were uneventful and filled with strenuous work. He was born in Locke, New York on January 7th, 1800. His parents were Nathaniel and

William McKinley was born January 29, 1843. He was born in Niles, Ohio. He went to Allegheny College before becoming a schoolteacher. In 1861, the Civil War broke out and so William McKinley enlisted in the Union Army. He later returned to Ohio and married Ida Saxton. Her health quickly declined but William lovingly and patiently catered to her.

Born on Nov. 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland to Wil and Margaret Carnegie/moved to America in 1848 - find better jobs/settled in Allegheny City (now Pittsburg, PA)

Andrew Jackson was born March 15, 1767 in Waxhaw, a settlement between North and South Carolina. He resided in the forested region of the western Carolinas as a child, in a home that was built by his father. His father died when he was young, leaving his mother to raise young Jackson and his two older brothers on her own. As a child, Jackson enjoyed fighting, shooting rifles,