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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”.

Identifies skills, theories of change, program designs, partnerships, and ways of building schools where students achieve.

We create this society in which every individual starts off at different points in life due to these social categories based on race and ethnicity, which in turn affects education, social class and our overall lifestyle. After we create these categories and put people there unwillingly, we act as though it is there fault and not ours, so our society is reluctant to help; in this way it would be a “helping hand” rather than a dependency people often associate it with. “Education is a significant factor in poverty” (Wong, Chapter 6); like stated above, different individuals get different starting points in life, therefore affecting where one ends up in life. “A national survey conducted in 1975, found that those living in poverty attributed it to personal failures, such as having a poor work ethic, poor money management skills and low personal moral values” (Martin

The issue of poverty in the United States seems to lie on the grounds of race education and family structure. As expected I found that educational levels paralleled poverty levels. Unexpected , research was found to prove that race did in fact play a substantial role in poverty. Family structure along with other influential factors either locked an individual into poverty or provided a means for escape from the continuing cycle. Other factors contributing to poverty was the location of homes or neighborhoods and the accessibility to better paying jobs.

Poverty is not only an individual problem, but a societal problem. Harrell R. Rodgers wrote an article, “Why are People Poor in America?” Rodgers gives two categories of theories that are used when cultural /behavioral or structural/economic. Behavior/culture theorists look at the behavior, culture and values of the poor as the reason for poverty. While structural /ecIn western culture statistics are an excessively used tool in describing social issues. Numbers help explain a situation, but in excesses, can dehumanize a population. A serious social issue that suffers from desensitization is poverty. Poverty, as it is defined by Webster, is the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of supporting; the condition of being poor. The condition of poverty plagues many American families. According to the Census bureau, 15.1 percent of the United States population falls below the poverty threshold. 15.1 percent does not draw the same effect as the actual 46.6 million individuals living in those circumstances. In the United States, poverty has become a growing problem. There are 15 million more people living in poverty today than in the year 2000 (U.S. Bureau of the Census 2013). The poverty threshold, developed by Molly Orshansky, is a tool used to help indicate how many Americans are in poverty. According to the census, 46.6 million of America’s total population makes less than the poverty threshold for a family of four. The condition of being

We hope for a prosperous future and fear poverty for ourselves and our future generations. In “Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations”, they show statistics representing poverty through the Census Bureau and Current Population Survey data. The definition of poverty given by the Census Bureau is based on families pretax money income compared to the family size and age composition. In the United States groups of people are more likely to live in poverty based on factors such as gender, race and ethnicity, and level of education. The statistics show that men are more likely to have greater wealth than women, especially if the woman is not married. African Americans and Hispanics are nearly three times more likely to struggle from poverty than whites. Immigrants are also more likely to live in poverty than native born citizens. Education also plays an important role seeing as 31.3 percent of families where the head of the family has less than a high school education live in poverty (Hoynes, Page, Stevens

250 years of slavery caused a racial gap between black and white people, a gap that we were not able to fill, even after 150 years. Moreover, some studies show this racial gap is widening day by day. Expanding wealth inequality and the racial wealth gap have become central to the debate over whether or not slavery is the root of the racial gap. Wealth racial inequality means, when the economy hits an unstable path, colored people don’t have the resources to withstand those shocks. While the effect of racial inequality might seem only to be an economic problem for colored family, it actually worsens political and economic outcomes for the entire country. It is not only inequalities in wealth winding, also inequities in health, education, housing, employment, income, wealth, and other areas that impact achievement and quality of life are creating a big gap between white and colored

The first article, “Cultures of Inequality: Ethnicity, Immigration, Social Welfare, and Imprisonment”, uses statistical analysis to discuss how race effects poverty, immigration, and welfare in heterogeneous and homogenous countries. The authors, Robert Crutchfield and David Pettinicchio, present two people that had theories on the culture of poverty. They were Banfield and Murray. President Bill Clinton praised Murray’s analysis by claiming that it was correct in all areas, but that his resolutions were drastic. Having a major effect on the poor, the acknowledgment of cultural inequality provides the explanation that high populations have a high tolerance for inequality. In other words, the populace allows for the inequalities to persist as if it is population control.

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 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

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.

The fight to end poverty has been explored with great passion throughout the years. Many methods were considered, including introducing a universal basic income, public assistance programs, and even campaigns to eliminate decadent influences like drugs or alcohol. Although poverty continues to inhibit our society’s overall progress to improve, this issue has been debated for many centuries. One person that fiercely advocated for an end to poverty was Thomas More. In his novella Utopia, More argues that poverty can be eliminated with a variety of governmental and societal changes. While many of his arguments cannot be used today, there are several that can be adapted to fit with modern day society. Based on my reading of the novella, as well as other contemporary sources, poverty in society can be successfully reduced by advocating vocational education.

I was raised by a single mother who was an immigrant at the time and we lived in a community composed of other Latino families who were all working class. It wasn’t until high school where I realized that our social economic status was below the poverty line. Some may become marveled at the thought that it took me that long to realize my family and I was poor. All the signs where there, things such as my mother sending me over to the neighbors right at dinner time so I would eat there, my uncles skipping dinners saying they weren’t hungry so I could have a second serving, and the hand me down clothes from other neighbors children. It took that long to come to that realization because my family raised me to appreciate that we had the necessities and not to cry the material things I wanted but couldn’t have. I had family who loved me and cared for me, as well as a roof over my head and food on the table. My mother who I mentioned is an immigrant; she later became a US Citizen, worked two jobs and tried to learn English at our local high school by taking evening classes. At times I could go days without seeing her because she would rise with the sun and come home well after dark. Her hard work and perseverance is a quality I have learned to admire from her as I watched her struggle to feed me and my siblings. Humility is another quality that I can thank my mother for instilling in us. An immigrant in the U.S. is very difficult to have opportunities where there is upward

She finds herself questioning, “Who, exactly, did I think was poor?” She concludes that she and most of the public find race and poverty are frequently equated to each other with no explanations as to why except for what they were brought up to believe. Her paper challenges her audience, the general public, to rethink the definition of poverty. McMillian brings to light that poverty should not be a point of racial contention but rather a common ground. As opposed to this, the second article finds race to be one of the factors that can contribute to poverty.