The Problem Of Lived Poverty

This article focuses on statistics and actions (or lack of) in policies related to poverty. The topics that is discussed included who is the most likely to live in poverty and how it is measured. Also discussed in this article are the public policy response and poverty reduction. The articles credibility is high due to the type source which is academic. However, the reliability of the context in the article is questionable because of the lack of a strongly written argument. The statements appear to lack explanation on how they got their evidence,

The three best predictors of poverty in the U.S are race-ethnicity, education, and sex of the head of household.Race-ethnicity is one of the strongest predictors of poverty, with Native Americans having the highest poverty rates at twenty-seven percent.There are more poorer whites than any other race, but that is only due to the larger population of whites in the U.S.The second predictor of poverty is education.The more education someone has the less chance they have of reaching poverty, but race-ethnicity can still increase someone's chances of reaching poverty no matter what their education level is.The third predictor of poverty is head of household.If a woman is the head of household the chances of poverty are much higher than if a man

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Annotated Bibliography Mohan, T. N., & Sartorio, J. (2007).  Welcome to Poverty USA. [electronic resource] : the 51st state. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, c2007.

Factors that determine poverty are gross national product, per capita income and industrialization. To broaden the scope of measuring quality of life Human Development Index came into force. It is the summary measure of average achievements in key dimensions of human developments, which illustrates long and healthy life and to have a decent standard of living.

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

Poverty is a social problem that has increased the risk of poor health and criminal activity in the United States of America. Consequently, poverty is different from other social problems, as a result; it affects people in different ways, and it limits development of people’s skills, ability, knowledge, and everything about them. A social problem is a social condition or pattern of behavior that affects some individuals or all people in the society. According to Kendall (2013) social problem is systematically disadvantage or harm a significant group of individual or when they are seen as harmful by groups of people that wield power, wealth, and influence in a group or society. Additionally, problems that harm a significant number of people include violence, fear of crime, environmental pollution, and inadequate access to health. However, there are some problems that occur in the society, not all these problems meet the proof to be defined as a social problem. Pursuing this further, not all circumstances occurring today in the society can be easily changed.

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

What does poverty mean to a child orphaned by cancer or abandoned by his father? It means he has to learn how to dream again.

Poverty does not solely pertain to individuals without the money to sustain themselves. Rather, poverty refers to the conditions of individuals or groups of people who only possess limited means to have and raise their children, care for their loved ones, maintain households, or contribute to their communities. In “Contradictions of Capital and Care,” Nancy Fraser identifies these social needs as the key capacities of social reproduction that are necessary for culture, political organization, and the creation of self-expanding value via economic production. Individuals lose these social capacities due to the contradiction between economic production and social reproduction that is inherent in capitalism; once these capacities are lost, individuals remain stuck in the cycle of poverty because of their limited abilities within the existing societal structures and hierarchies that subjugate them. The only way to significantly reduce and eventually end poverty is thus to restructure society, so that social reproduction and economic production are no longer contradictory and are recognized as inter-dependent spheres.

Although the region of Evanston has been making evident progress towards community improvement and sustainability, the issue of poverty and low income still remains. Considering different demographics and factors that make up a community, such as individual and family incomes and school lunch reduction programs, can be significant when evaluating income and poverty tendencies. Before analyzing current trends within Evanston, it can be sensible to research past trends and findings. That being said, according to the 2000 census, it was found that 24% of families were living below the poverty line, which otherwise accounted for 459 families total ("The Social Areas of Cincinnati," 2015). Furthermore, when examining trends from 1990-2000, it was found that the total number of persons living below the poverty line increased by 26%, while the city total actually decreased by 18% ("Plan Cincinnati," 2015). It can also be important when assessing household incomes and poverty lines to consider the average household income within the community in order to properly assess the significance of life in poverty within Evanston. That being said, the median household income within Evanston is only $22,763 (realtor.com, 2015). Although the information regarding the specificity of how far under the poverty line community members of Evanston exist is hard to come by, it should be noted that 35.7% of individuals residing in Evanston live below the poverty line ("Neighborhood Scout,"

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.

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.

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.

In this book, it is found that the author manage to give detail explanations on each factors that is believed to cause poverty. The author makes progress and develops the ideas convincingly by providing adequate information based on statistical data and empirical evidences. In chapter four, the author argues that level of education affects the potential earnings of household. Indeed he writes, “The access to education expands the potential for human capital thereby enabling one to qualify for better-paid jobs” (29). To support his argument, the author proves it based on the results of the survey in which it is presented in table 4.1 that show the distribution of household heads based on the level of general education.