Poverty : The Greatest Tragedy Of Life

For a nation of 323.1 billion people, it is astonishing to see the people of America unaware of some situations. According to The Center for Poverty Research, in 2015, an estimated 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty according to the official measure. We are not doing enough to help those in need. Of course there are places for people to get help but so many people are struggling. “In 2015, 12.2% of men lived in Poverty USA, and 14.8% of women lived in poverty” (The State of Poverty). As a nation, we could try to be more considerate to the people that need help. “Overall, the typical American defined as poor by the government has a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, a stove, a clothes washer and dryer, and a microwave” (How Poor is America’s Poor?). Some people suffer silently. They may have all of these things but they will always be in need of assistance. Our government has ignored the poor people of America and it is time to take action. Already, there are food

The United States is one of the richest and most abundant nations in the world. It is ironic that such high levels of poverty and income equality still continues in such a prosperous nation. Poverty exists due to the economic system that is constructed to allow the increase of wealth on one side and conditions of scarceness that make poverty unavoidable on the other.

Many reforms in the UnitedStates have been passed to help fight against the “War on Poverty”; but it has not been effective in eradicating poverty in the U.S. There are about 46 million people who are living in impoverished conditions and poverty continues to be a social issue in this country (Heritage Foundation, 2011) In the beginning, our country was formed under the belief that “this land is the land of opportunity and if we worked hard enough the American Dream can be gained” (Schwarz, 1997). People immigrate to this country today in hopes of becoming rich so they could gain a better life. In spite of coming to this country for a better life, many are faced with the lack of skills and money to succeed. In the end, most will end

In order to more clearly understand the severity of poverty in our nation, we must first look back to the source of the issue. With the start of The Great Depression in the 1920s, economic downturn was at it’s worst. After the Stock Market Crash of 1929, millions of investors on Wall Street were uprooted. This caused consumer spending to drastically decline over the next several years. With this decrease in consumer spending, nearly 15 million Americans were laid off and half of the country’s banks failed. President

Poverty in the United States is a big concern that the nation face all together. Poverty is the main reasons why people are homeless, do not have enough food to eat, cannot get the medical help needed, and why there are so many crimes throughout the world. The main focus is poverty in the United States and how as a nation the citizens came together to help one another out. RONALD REAGAN famously said, “We fought a war on poverty and poverty won.” With 46 million Americans — 15 percent of the population — now counted as poor, it’s tempting to think he may have been right (Edelman Para 1). Poverty effects each and every one of our citizens just because fixing poverty requires money, millions and millions of dollars must come from someone. That money comes from taxpayers that works hard for their money whether it is minimum wage, high wage employees, or even property owners. Throughout history, one of the solution of poverty in the United States is providing free aid to the general public who qualifies or meet certain standards of being poor and in need. It started long ago when poverty was born, poverty was born in the depression era where the population of the people was jobless, homeless, and left to steal from the fortunate just to survive. Although Welfare has changed significantly from providing aid to single mothers with dependents and war veterans’, it is still a source of income that keeps people from suffering financially alone. Unemployment benefits, welfare, and

One of the most pressing social problems that concerns me is the increasing poverty in America. This is most pressing to me because I live and experience it daily. In the United States, we have two basic poverty problems in the United States. One is low-wage work and the other is those with almost no work. These two overlaps. Most whom are poor work as much as they can and can go in and out of poverty, this was my childhood growing up. My parents work as much as the law/county would let them work, so we did without on a few things. Fewer people have little or no work on a continuing basis, but they are in much worst places and trend to stay poor from one generation to the next. My best friend family had little to no work and the work they

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

Reducing poverty has become a significant concern for not only American’s, but also the government. In 2008 the recession hit the US for the first time in decades. When we think of poverty, we think of a person or a family that is poor, not having the basic necessities to survive. According to the Census Bureau, the recorded poverty rate in 2009 was 14.3 percent—up from 13.2 percent in 2008 (Espejo 14-20) Four years later, in September 2014, according to the US Census Bereau, “More than 45 million people” in the United States, that is 14.5 percent of Americans, still lived below the poverty line in 2013(Gongloff). While this is a drop from 15 percent in 2012, even with economic recovery the past

The answer to poverty is simple. We need to change our education system, so that kids want to go to school. People ask why do kids ditch so much? Why are kids out joining gangs and not staying in school learning? Why are kids committing crimes of drug and violence? It’s a simple answer that we must all face. Our education system is not educating our young; it’s turning them into parrots. Kids are dreading going to school because it’s all tests and notes. Our education system lost its hands on teaching. We need to reframe the education system and make it one kids want to be apart of, not one they want to run from. We need to continue to educate ourselves after high school, but we cant do those if we don’t learn how to educate our selves while we are in school. We need to open up new jobs that are with this time period and get rid of the old. We are no longer in a state of get a job, and work until you retire. Jobs come and go, and we need to educate our kids to understand this, so they will continue to learn after they are out of school, even past a college level.

There are three main arguments believed to be the explanations for the existence and persistence of poverty. The first account is the Dependency-Based Explanation that puts the blame of poverty to the individual or to their cultural background. The Exclusion-Based Explanation and Structural-Based Explanation are the next two which establishes the society that condemns people to poverty.

Poverty has been evident since The Great Depression in the 1930’s. Since then, there has been an attempt to lower poverty level, though only a 2.5% decrease has been seen since 1965. It is argued that we do not need another war on poverty since nothing has seemed to help, but this is an issue that affects everyone. As Mark Bittman stated in his article “Why We’re Fasting” “This is a moral issue; the budget is a moral document.” Poverty can be improved if more emphasis is added to helping individuals or families out of poverty, instead of assisting them through their lives, by improving existing laws or implementing new laws centering around the idea of a fixed income.

A social problem, is “a general factor that effects and damages society”. It can be used to describe an issue or a problem within a certain group of people or an area in the world. Examples of contemporary social problems today include anti-social behaviour, drug abuse, and sexual abuse. Poverty is an example of a social problem that exists all over the world, and to different extents. In the UK, poverty has effected at least a third of the population, as shown by the Office of National Statistics, providing evidence that it is a massive social problem in the country. Tameside has a big poverty problem. 1 in 4 children in Tameside are born into poverty, and workers in Tameside earn significantly less than other workers in the rest of the North-West area. In addition, Tameside has the largest proportion of people claiming unemployment benefits compared to the rest of the North West of England.

The United States has one of the strongest economies in the world. Even in light of recent events such as the economic collapse and recession, the U.S. reported a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $47,200 per capita in 2010 (estimated). The U.S. has maintained its status as the largest and most technological country due to its market based economy (CIA-The World Fact Book). However, while the U.S. has reported such high numbers in GDP, we rank third in poverty with a 17% poverty rate. This ranking is among the top thirty of

What is poverty? Poverty in my sense of the word is when a person has nothing of there own. No food. No water and very poor living conditions. Also since this world revolves around a type of currency a person in poverty would have little or none of any type of currency wherever that person resides. Does the word poverty differentiate from a country like England that has a government that tends the needs of the lower class than a third world country like Africa where it is survival of the fittest? Which would really be the poor?