Poor Condition In America

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.

Living in a first world country, I possess many advantages. My life is bound to be a decent one even if I make a few mistakes and go through some hardships. Except, it’s not. Half of lower-class Americans do not have the stability we need to live comfortably. Consequently, our way of living becomes a hamster wheel we have to keep turning to generate enough money for basic living necessities. Experiencing such first-world misfortunes almost makes my remarks seem cavil, but the reality of low-income Americans living in one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. is ghastly to say the least. Moreover, I have had firsthand experience of extreme financial hardships in my household living with a single mom. To illustrate, within weeks, my dad was

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.

Poverty has always been with us from beggars outside the gates of Jerusalem to the mentally ill homeless woman in the park. America is known for our huge difference in culture and class. This is due partly to the dynamics behind the political decisions of this country. The president himself admits that America is more unequal than it’s been since the great depression and many of his own supporters say he has failed. America now has, by many standards, the lowest social mobility of all of the high-end countries, meaning that a child born into poverty is likely to grow up as a poor adult. This is surprising for a country that not only prides itself as being a middle class society, but as the society where anyone can make it and where

The miners were forced to live in company-owned shacks and had to trade in company stores at excessive prices. Almost every miner was in debt to the company for rent and food which came out of his wages.

The current poverty rate in America is 13.5 percent (US Census Bureau). That measures out to roughly 43.1 million Americans. What exactly is poverty? Poverty means not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. However, poverty is so much more than just not having enough money. Poverty is not having access to a doctor or medications you may need, poverty is not having access to a good education. Poverty can be the people who are barely able to pay for food and shelter and simply can’t afford other expenses such as car repairs, field trips with their children and any other extracurricular activity.

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

Public housing is another program that helps to provide a roof over a family’s heads for reduced costs. Rent in some places can be quite high and a family of four may find it hard even to afford a small 3 bedroom house without breaking their pockets.

Even though Dad had been fired from the barite mine, we were able to continue living in the depot by paying rent to the mining company, since not a lot of other families were vying for the place.We now had food in the fridge, at least until it got toward to end of the month, when we usually ran out of money because neither Mom nor Dad ever mastered the art of budgeting” (Walls 76).

Poverty is an epidemic that has swept the American nation many times over. Whether it be quietly lingering under the surface, or blatantly staring us in the face as it is in this current recession, it affects people across America on individual, community and national levels alike. While there are many causes and effects of poverty, it is important to view the issue of poverty and its causes from all angles when one seeks to tackle the problem. These factors include socio-economic status, mental illness, family values and work ethics, to name a few. In this essay, I will be examining these factors as they are discussed in the book, The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (referred to as Glass Castle throughout essay), as well as in the article

for a whole year grew in ways that i wouldn't imagine mostly mentally seeing the world different, and how people really are. I read a lot of books that i could relate to made sure i kept

A second reporter from the New York Journal interviews an officer of a mining camp that says, “If you were to go from one to another and inquire into their condition at noon, I give you my word that fully half of them will tell you that they do not know where their supper is to come from.” Miners all over the country are being forced into poverty by the mining companies that they are making money for. Also what little a miner is making in paid income is subjected to outrageous charges that may range anywhere from housing, store credit, and medical fees. Most of the time all three of this pay cutting fees are applied and are taken out leaving a dirty coal covered miner with no money what so ever and starving family in a dank cold hovel and dirty blackened water unsafe to drink. It’s regrettable to think that in the end of all this, it would appear to be that the coal companies themselves make more money of the miners than they do of the coal they have them dig out of the ground. The miners and their families in Storming Heaven are just like this in real life since they are facing the same set of obstacles. Giardina’s novel moves us into the time of the early 1900’s and tells of how they “…freeze and starve” Storming Heaven, when the try and fight back. “Nine or ten people died each week” Storming Heaven, and die when they are left with nothing. All throughout the book it only worsens for them as time passes onwards. “What they needed was food and warmth, and I could give them neither. Nor could the miners give these things to their families”. Poverty is not something that should be taken lightly and Giardina openly places the reader into a first-hand experience of what it means to be truly impoverished and out of options. All of those frontier men and substance farms that ounce lived as the chose now must follow in line

When my mom was working or the factories she was let off due to the amount of people who wanted her spot. She looked and looked for another job but couldn’t find one. The government sent us stamps and we could barely afford our house let alone food we would go to kitchens, soup kitchens. these were like feeding centers for people who couldn’t afford food. There was often a lot of people here and not a lot of good food most of the time it was just water with vegetables in it. Till my mom got back her job this was where we got our

I was born from a family, in which it was just my sister and I. At a tender age

For as long as I can remember I’ve had the same group of friends, but coming into high school I met a lot of new people. I met some of my best friends here and my boyfriend.I’ve reached out to a lot of different people I didn’t really expect to be friends with. I learned that you really can’t judge a book by a cover and that probably sounds cliche, but some of the people I thought I’d never get along with became some of my really good friends.