Even though financial assistance is supposed to be a means of temporary aid, many aren't looking at it that way Many people are taking advantage of the fact that they can get it and not on the fact of if they need it or not. A lot of people that are living in poverty rely on federal assistance in order to ensure their survival. Once they get on assistance many of them find it very difficult to get off of it. Even though this may not be the case for all of those on assistance, the whole group is being classified with the same stigma. With so many people being on federal assistance it has created a lot of stress on our economic system and the tax payers that support it it has created a negative situation because so many see the system being abused and they feel they aren't benefiting
There are two main reasons that American children are poor: Their parents don't work much, and fathers are absent from the home. In good economic times or bad, the typical poor family with children is supported by only 800 hours of work during a year: That amounts to 16 hours of work per week. If work in each family were raised to 2,000 hours per year the equivalent of one adult working 40 hours per week throughout the year nearly 75 percent of poor children would be lifted out of official poverty. Father absence is another major cause of child poverty. Nearly twothirds of poor children reside in singleparent homes; each year, an additional 1.3 million children are born out of wedlock.
The lack of motivation caused by years of not having a job and watching your family suffer in poverty is a condition that not too many of us are familiar with. “Native American Poverty,” by Tom Rodgers justifies the allegations that a large percentage, about 25%, of the Native Americans live in poverty. “According to the US Census Bureau, these Americans earn a median annual income of $33,627. One in every four (25.3 percent) lives in poverty and nearly a third (29.9 percent) are without health insurance coverage.” The lack of money has become a huge component in the dismemberment of the culture that the Natives so lavishly submerged themselves into, and the picking up other undesirable traits such as drinking. The
Hunger Issues in America Hunger is the most least talked about issue in America. How many people know that one in six people and one in five children often wonder where their next meal will come from. In fact one in six Americans do not have access to enough food, including children and seniors according to Feeding America Facts. Knowing that these issues exist in one of the richest countries in the world is mind-boggling. Our country is willing to help other countries with their hunger issues instead of helping our own people in the United States of America.
What Cause People Being Homeless? Homeless households are those people without shelters that would fall within the scope of living quarters. They carry their few possessions with them, sleeping in the streets, in doorways or on piers, or in another space, on a more or less random basis. Homelessness is a serious problem in America. You can see many homeless people everywhere in America.
As Strayer, Gatzke, and Harbison state in their textbook The Course of Civilization states “The basic trouble was that very few inhabitants of the empire believed that the old civilization was worth saving… the overwhelming majority of the population had been systematically excluded from political responsibilities. They could not organize to protect themselves; they could not serve in the army… Their economic plight was hopeless. Most of them were serfs bound to the soil, and the small urban groups saw their cities slipping into an economic decline.”(DBQ 2, Doc 1) What these men mean is the majority of the people (which were poor serfs) were excluded from political responsibilities. In addition, they could not protect themselves or serve in the army mainly because they were too poor (in order to be in the army, the people had to be wealthy) and the urban patricians saw their city fall into an economic downfall. What also led the downfall of the Western Roman Empire were the rise of Christianity and the large size
Imagine living in a cardboard box, with nowhere else to go, no food to eat and the rain pouring down hard. This is a horrible way to live. Yet worldwide millions of people are living in these conditions. True, the United States has poverty nationwide, but nothing compared to what is happening in third world countries. In some countries, no middle class exists.
According to (“Preventing Homelessness in America”) the most proximate cause of homelessness in America is poverty. Poverty is not something that can be easily fixed, but it has the potential to be and needs to be. The cost of homelessness is extremely high and if America can come up with some way to fix poverty or at least make it less prevalent then the issue of homelessness would decline. If people would look around in their towns and cities they would see that there are several empty buildings that would be perfect for creating homes for many homeless people. The major issue would be funding.
Poverty Sociology is the science that studies human behavior and the society. Poverty is one of the main key social issues that affect the society. Poverty is referred to as the lack of material things such as money, goods or low living standards in comparison to others. According to World Bank data indicators, the number of people living under $2.50 is three billion. Illiteracy on the other hand, is lack of the ability to read and write.
This leaves the family open to exploitation as they lack the resources to alter their circumstances to be able to move out of poverty. Families living in poverty are considered disadvantaged in society due to seeing them as the under classed citizens of the general population. Families frequently suffer economic disadvantage (hardship) and low living standards as they can’t afford the necessities and experience real deprivation and hardship in everyday life (Issues in society, Poverty, p1). Who is likely to be affected by poverty? There are high rates of poverty among families experiencing unemployment, single parent families and indigenous families.