The people who are most affected by poverty are women who work part time as most of their wages will be going on the childcare costs and needs also black and ethnic minority groups find it a struggle when they are looking for work and finally disabled people. When living in poverty people find it hard to cope especially when it removes choice for families and you can’t have what you want, you can only, if lucky, get what you need. Due to not having enough money families with children end up with a limited choice in small, cramped, poor housing which can sometimes end in catching some diseases such as bronchitis because the house is hard to heat. Poverty affects children directly. It may cause them to have a lower achievement in school as their own parents are unable to help with homework’s and also they may end up missing out on school trips as their family are unable to afford it.
Teresa Graham English 111-0DJ Oct. 19, 2011 Teresa Graham English 111-0DJ Oct. 19, 2011 Working but Still Living in Poverty Many Americans work full time jobs but are living in poverty because of the recession, rising food cost, and government cuts. These situations are making it hard for Americans to make it in everyday life. They have to even sometimes beg for food for their families. So many people living in the United States have full-time jobs but the pay is minimum wage. With the economy in the shape it is, it makes those full-time jobs seem like only part-time jobs.
Supporters argue that it is unfair that people can work hard, and put in a 40 hour work week, but still not make enough to support their families. Critics of the wage increase say that raising minimum wage would force employers to fire employees, lower their hours, or used automated machines rather than human workers. Some critics also contend that the jobs that pay minimum wage do not require skill, are for uneducated workers, and are not meant to support a
Roads and railway were inadequate to meet the demands. Transport and housing were also inadequate to cope with the number of town dwellers. Under the NEP there had been unemployment, a shortage of labour. Many of the new workers were in experienced peasants. Wages rose how ever there were too few goods on which to spend money.
Forty two percent of all families below the UK poverty line contained no working members(CPAG, 2009/10). This shows that a lot of poor people do not work. Low Paid Work is another cause of Poverty. You find people working, but their earning is not enough to support their families. The cost of living keeps getting higher and higher.
In our world today there is lack of opportunities for the elderly person to take part in; there are not enough facilities to cater to each person’s need, and in capabilities in that the elderly persons that are not gainfully employed cannot afford a house are to maintain him or herself on their own without the aid from the government agencies one out of every ten elderly person is now living in deep poverty. The elderly are subjected to serious scrutiny and discrimination in their jobs, their family and others in their social life if they have one. In their work place they are seen as not productive, burdensome and feeble, so once they have reach the age of 50 and 60 they are ask to leave and find another means to occupy their time, because the work place only caters to the young and made only provision for the younger generation. Elderly people are faced with a lot of problems that affect them until they are dead. Some of these problems are poverty, malnutrition, and lack of transportation, healthcare difficulties and elderly abuse.
• Introduction: Good intention may have both consequences depending on how it guided whether by error or correct decision. The best example is the minimum wage regulation which means to raise the wages to improve living conditions but actually influence many to economy. Minimum wage is the lowest hourly, daily wage of an employee. Many economists have different ideas of an in crease in minimum wage, the matter in the views on disadvantages and advantages being disputed by many advocates. The advantages from higher minimum wage can have a positive effect on the whole economy flows, while the disadvantages have some negative effects on employment rates.
(2 )Researchers have found that this can lead to behaviour issues , poor academic performance and these effects can last a life-time. Men in unskilled jobs and low-paid jobs are most vulnerable to unemployment and women would make up the vast majority of part-time and low-paid jobs while trying to afford the high rise in childcare costs. For people in low paid jobs and unskilled jobs it becomes very difficult to maintain their
As employers want the workers to work efectively for the company they have to turn up for their work, but if they are ill or don’t turn up the company still have to pay them their loan (even though some employers think this is not fair). The caste study rate of absenteeism in 2005 was 2% and in 2007 it was 3.1% this shows us that people are more often ill this might be due to not enough leisure time as a lot of companies want to keep their workers busy and not to have more workers than they actually need or the workers are just lazy and don’t want to turn up for work. Health and safety absenteeism there
Finally, the most important reason we have such a huge homeless problem could be do to the limited availability of low income housing. Lack of low income housing shows us why there are so many homeless people in my community. There are those that work but who just are not able to afford the costs associated with renting or owning a “regular” place of dwelling. Another factor in so many people becoming homeless could be the high unemployment rate and high rate of companies laying off workers. Without an income one is unable to pay living expenses therefore they end up living in the street and these causes cannot be prevented.