Poverty And The Effect On Our Society

Nelson Mandela once said, "Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom” (Make Poverty History, 2005). Gwinnett county is third in the country when it comes to a high poverty rate, with 14% of the population living below poverty (Family Promise of Gwinnet County, 2013). As an educator it is important to familiarize with the county of which one is to teach in, and poverty is an issue in Gwinnett county. One must understand the affects of poverty on

In Ruby Payne's “A Framework for Understanding Poverty” she endeavors to provide educators with strategies to teach children from poor families, but Ruby Payne went wrong when she just took a mental image from a classroom and began analyzing on what she saw without enough evidence, her principal message was that poverty is not simply a monetary condition. She describes it to her audiences as a culture with particular rules, values, and knowledge transmitted from one generation to the next.

A Framework for Understanding Poverty is a book, written by Ruby K. Payne for the purpose of helping educators impact their students in poverty through opportunities. This book examines experiences from all economic classes in order to evaluate the differences in education among each class. Payne talks about the different types of poverty and the resources needed to be a stable and educated person. Poverty is “the extent to which an individual does without resources”.

People in poverty are as diverse as any other socioeconomic class. They present, a wide array of values, beliefs, experiences, backgrounds, and life chances. In order to be responsive to the needs of students, it would be helpful to

12 – When considering an approach in understanding and teaching the student of poverty both Ruby Payne and Eric Jensen provide insightful strategies and resources. I found both author’s works to be very compatible. Having read very little on teaching and understanding those living in the lap of poverty both books are defiantly thought provoking, while building a good foundation.

A Framework for Understanding Poverty is a valuable tool to the helping profession. It has a lot of good information about the cultural differences between classes. It offers practical solutions to many problems commonly encountered when educators have problems with their students who live in poverty. The book helps educators to assist students who live in poverty survive in the middle-class world. Payne 's work has been eye opening in

Poverty is a big problem in the United States. According to Charles Zastrow, “in 2012 over forty-six million people, about fifteen percent of our population was living below the poverty line” (p. 117). In other words, there were a great amount of people living below the poverty line the poverty line. The poverty line is the minimum level of income needed for secured needs of life according to the government. Poverty causes malnutrition, homelessness, School dropout’s drug abuse, and much more.

Poverty within America has steadily been decreasing with it being at 14.8% in 2014, 13.5% in 2015 and the most recent statistic of poverty among Americans being at 12.7 during the year 2016.Although we should not yet claim poverty among Americans is no longer an issue as it is 1.4 higher than it was seventeen years ago. Poverty, although decreasing, is a blight on America and should be deal with to prevent suffering upon Americans. Poverty is a social issue and should be approached as such, a social theory that should be used to eliminate poverty is the social conflict theory as it takes the approach that we should not blame the poor for their situation instead we should blame the way society operates. Society does tend to give poor people benefits albeit, in the wrong ways, society should instead support the poor to obtain a better education and support the natural reconstruction of a neighborhood.

Poverty is “the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor” (Dictionary.com, 2017). Based off this definition poverty is a condition that can cause a cascade of cause and effect actions that is detrimental to families and individuals both physically and mentally. Haan, Kaplan, & Camacho (2017) completed a study on the correlation between social and economic status and health in adults in Oakland, CA. They found that the lower the socioeconomic class the higher incidents of diseases and deaths related to chronic diseases (p.1161-1162). Just being without money or little money was not the only indication of health indication, a person living in an area with higher poverty issues

In “What is Poverty” by Jo Goodwin Parker, she gives multiple definitions of poverty based on her personal experience. She opens asking her readers to not take pity on her as she tells her story, but to understand it and put yourself in her shoes. Parker is woman who has been living in poverty her whole life, quitting school in junior high to get a job and help her family out with bills. In doing so, she managed to stay in poverty and bring three children into the same impoverish conditions she had to endure since she was a child. In her account of what poverty is, Parker makes the effort to make her readers understand what poverty is. She does this by giving definitions of poverty directly related to her life, such as “Poverty is being tired.” or “Poverty is looking into a black future.” She uses her own life to describe poverty, and expects readers to have a better understanding and do something about it.

Most of us cannot imagine finishing our day without a meal, but for a very huge population in the world, being hungry is part of everyday life. Hunger leads to malnutrition and it has long term irreversible effect on brain development. Hungry and malnourished child performs poorly academically and cannot achieve its full potential. Poor brain development and academic performance leads to poverty. Hungry population cannot escape poverty. Poverty then leads to further hunger and it is a never-ending conflict. Many children and adults in developing part of the world are caught in this. Once the population is fed and properly nourished this cycle of hunger and poverty can be broken. The

Poverty is a considerable social problem; with a significant impact on those who suffer within. Growing up in poverty “reduces a child’s chance of growing up to be a healthy, well-adjusted, and contributing adult in our society” (Crosson-Tower, 2014, p. 59). Poverty is families having to struggle to afford necessities. Poverty does not know where your next meal is coming from or having to choose between paying rent and seeing a health care provider. The impact of poverty affects one’s ability through physical, social, emotional, and educational health. Even though individual overcome poverty it still extends across cultural, racial, ethnic, and geographical borders. Children represent the largest group of poverty in the United States. “Growing up in poverty places a child at a profound disadvantage and substantially lowers the chances that the child will mature into a well-adjusted, productive, and contributing

As a community guided by God, the Catholic Church is continually challenging its members and other global communities to unite through charity, justice and subsidiarity to improve the livelihood of those supressed by poverty. By definition, such poverty is detrimental to human rights outlined in the Catholic Social Teachings (CSTs), and consequently, the Church has sought immediate aid for these people. Due to the cyclical nature of poverty, actions of justice are also being encouraged to sustain its reversal. Ideologies of benefactor supremacy aim to be inhibited through humility and the implementation of citizen-led strategies to eradicate poverty. However, the human nature presents recurrent barriers, deterring the success of social

Poverty is a topic I confidently feel I have a wide-range of knowledge and experience on. My volunteer experience reflects my experience with poverty as a result of working with at-risk youth who live in a low-income neighborhood. On top of my experiences, I also did extensive research on poverty from a sociological perspective as a part of my undergraduate degree at Cape Breton University. Therefore, consequently, the effects of poverty were in no way new information. The cycle of poverty, in particular, was a focus for me as a volunteer and a student. I spent a great deal of time looking at the poverty cycle and ways to end it. Ultimately, there was no one right way to break the cycle of poverty but I do understand the poverty cycle fully. The textbook did offer new knowledge on strategies to

There are two essential types of situational poverty, cyclical and of assets (“Situational Poverty,” 2016). Cyclical poverty is dependent on the flow of the national and global economy (“Situational Poverty,” 2016). An example of cyclical poverty was the 2008-2013 great recession, that caused lower pay rates and increased unemployment rates, which left people struggling to make ends meet, making them fall below the poverty line (“Situational Poverty,” 2016). Of assets poverty is provoked by a crisis to low income families or to the secure middle class (“Situational Poverty,” 2016). Low income families struggle to secure assets such as home ownership, checking and savings accounts, and life insurance because of the constant shift between being above and below the poverty line (“Situational Poverty,” 2016). Due to high risk decisions, middle class families can lose those assets. (“Situational Poverty,” 2016).