Poverty Reflection

Post the economic crisis in America and the recession during the years of 2008 and 2009, the country saw a great increase in poverty and worsening of living conditions of Americans. Currently, almost 50 million of fellow Americans are living in extremely bad conditions under the poverty line which means earning less than $11490 for a single person or $23550 for a family of four people. That’s about 1 in every 6 people in this country are living under poverty. A person living in this country on minimum wage which is $7.25 an hour also cannot pull himself out of poverty even after working 40 hours a week.

Understand how to prevent poverty has been a great concern within the United States and across the globe. Many people believe that if you live in poverty you are lazy and you put yourself in that position. Well that is just not the case. Having said that, while I was doing the simulation, I noticed that I had to make difficult decisions that would result in whether or not I would make enough money to pay bills and keep my family intact. I know what it's like to live in poverty. I've experienced what it's like to have no running water or no electricity. When my parents came to the United States in the 90's they had a tough time getting situated in Nashville, Tennessee. When my mother had me and brother, everything seemed to be going well for

Homelessness is an epidemic problem that faces many American’s and families across the United States, especially in Detroit. You may see homeless people sleeping in the underpasses of freeways or walking and sitting on street corners or holding up a sign asking for some support for their next meal. We all have seen homeless individuals and thought it was not our problem for their circumstances or maybe had a belief he/she was lying about their situation. Many of us make a choice to give money or buy food, but there are others who make a choice to ignore or overlook the homeless population. Society has placed a stigma and label the homeless population labeling them destitute by choice, but for many homelessness has become a way of life.

The poverty Simulation gives you an understanding of families living in poverty and a chance to live through their struggle. During the poverty simulation I was a 52 year old aged grandfather named Warron Wiscott with no high school diploma. I was a diabetic and had mobility problems ending with me not being able to work anymore so I started receiving disability. I lived in a small house, in which I was still paying off the first and second mortgage. My wife was the only one working full time. Since I was disabled I had to stay home with my grandchildren who had just moved in with us when my daughter was incarcerated for drug use. I felt that by being disabled I wasn’t bringing much into the family. Sure I was getting five hundred dollars a month but as a person myself I felt like a lazy bum just sitting around doing nothing. I wish that I had been able to go buy groceries to help out my family since we didn't buy food for about two weeks.

The top one percent of the wealthiest people in the United States is not only getting wealthier and widening the gap between them and the middle class economically, but they are widening the gap in terms of health as well. The film “In Sickness and In Wealth” took a look at the correlation between economic inequality and the overall health of people. To do this the film looked at different economic classes in examples shown by the lives of individuals in Louisville, Kentucky.

I attended my 1st Poverty Simulation my Junior year and assumed the role of a single mother with a live-in boyfriend. I was randomly assigned my role and only had the background information contained in the folder to guide my character. There were vendors situated around the room that performed different tasks. There was a police man and a thief that added more stressors to the stimulation. The “weeks” were in 15-minute intervals and there was a total of four weeks. During each week, you were required to do numerous tasks such as pay

What is poverty? www.merriam-webster.com defines poverty as “the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. “Many Americans mainly think that poor people consist of being unemployed, lazy, lack of education, etc. I even asked a few random people at Capital University, why people are poor and many said lack of employment and others mentioned having a hole in their pocket and not being educated. Even though this may be true; many Americans lack the facts that many poor people are hardworking people who fail to make ends meet. Many Americans live under three different kinds of poverty, they consist of: Official Poverty, Absolute Poverty, and Relative Poverty. To best understand what all

In this paper I will be talking about the poverty simulation that we had done for class. I will be talking about how it connects to class, my role, and my fake family that I had worked with during the simulation, and my views of poverty after finishing the simulation. Poverty means something different to everyone and I feel like this simulation was a very good way to show how everyday people can struggle with money, kids, and finding resources that they might be able to utilize to benefit themselves.

People living in poverty have to prioritize their “needs.” That is the main thing that I learned while doing this simulation. The needs for my family and I were food, shelter, and healthcare. When placing our needs in order we all picked food as our number one priority. That often left us without functional shelter. For example, another family had gotten evicted from their house, because they had chosen food before paying their rent. My family had gotten their utilities turned off because of lack of money as well.

Poverty for centuries has been a very severe issue that has troubled many nations while impeding economic developments and progress. Poverty stricken countries are majorly concentrated in the continents of Africa and Asia. Continents like the Americas and Europe have globally been recognized as been wealthier yet still many parts of these ostensible countries face massive cases of poverty. Most at times, countries with high populations owing to high birth rates face the most cases of poverty. The definition of poverty can be boundless in the sense that poverty entails so many subsections as it sometimes gets complicated to group everything under one umbrella. Society tends to focus more on the tangible aspects of poverty because many people associate poverty with lacking money and it makes sense because poverty in terms of lacking money is a major problem affecting almost every country in the world. Even though it is debatable that poverty can be physical, intellectual, spiritual and even emotional, it is best to talk about the lack of money and economic developments in this essay. With reference to the oxford English Dictionary, poverty is state of being extremely poor and the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount. Reflecting on this definition given, I deduced that malnutrition and hunger can define poverty. In the light of this, I think poverty is lacking a comfortable place of shelter, being ill and not having access to a better

Poverty is very widespread and touches the lives of millions of Americans. Through the speeches of Russell Conwell (Acres of Diamonds 1915) and Samuel Gompers (What does the working man want? 1890) we see through their eyes how each man feels about this topic. Being in poverty is something that none of us want for ourselves. Even though we try our best sometimes it is something that is out of our hands and something we can’t avoid.

Have you ever wonder who is going through poverty? Have you ever stop and think about what is the government doing for the poor. People don’t want to realize that their people that don’t have any money for food or even clothes. Poor is all over the world not only in one part of the world. The government won’t do anything for them they supposedly do some of the states have this type of campaigns for the poor people but they actually don’t do anything for them.

Poverty is a word some would associate with other words like, filthy, lazy, and government moocher, but no one would stop to think that maybe you could associate the word poverty with words such as, struggling, hard working, and sacrificial. Many parents who live in poverty do the very best they can for their children, it is important to stimulate a child's vocabulary to ensure they can keep up with their more affluent peers, as well as keeping them healthy. Thanks to former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Medicare, and Medicaid Programs, as well as head start for children who were born into lower income families, parents are able to try and give their child their best chance. Early childhood education, health care, and access to a living

Being a third world country means to be more underdeveloped than most upcoming countries there is today. Third world countries want and deserve more than they get, dealing with poverty, gender inequality, racial inequality, educational problems, hunger, and war. But for this paper, the focus is on poverty in Madagascar. While being in the top 10 ranks of poorest countries as number 9, poverty is the outcome for most of the problems that occur in Madagascar. So, with poverty being a catastrophic social problem, it is in fact severe. Poverty rises to 85% in rural areas, that affecting the homes to 80% of the high population of over 22 million. According to B. Essama-Nssah, writer of “Impact of Growth and Distribution on Poverty in Madagascar”, he argues that the rural areas is the most prevalent area for impoverished situations. Since, the lack of economic growth does not seem to overcome its bearings, the hardship will continue its deficits. Its magnitude to succeed for a better future will be the ultimate goal.

The first major factor is socioeconomic status, as “household income is the greatest determinant of living standards” (Keshavjee & Farmer, 2014, p. 64). Poverty might be considered the most prominent, where lower socioeconomic status is a debilitating factor in food accessibility and basic services (Navaneetham, Dharmalingam, & Caselli, 2008, p. 2). Despite the overall income transition in recent years and improved and upward trends in economic growth, undernutrition persists due to the larger societal policy changes that occurred in 1991. As previously mentioned, one possible explanation for this is that the inequalities or gaps in both access to food and socioeconomic classes are increasing despite the overall upward trend in growth, and that it is the precise discrepancies in the distribution of wealth that leads to malnourishment. It seems to most commonly be the case that either families are too poor to provide sufficient food for their family, or due to the rapid globalization, the food that they can afford consists of cheap, energy-dense yet nutrient-deficient food as they are constrained in food options (Caballero, 2005). This, in part, lends itself to causing obesity in mothers who gain weight from the calories, yet underweight children, as the proper essentials with which to grow are not being provided (Averett & Wang, 2016). Finally, economic status has many downstream effects besides just the affordability of healthy food; mothers or families residing in