Poverty in America today is an unrecognized social dilemma that exists everywhere. Poverty comes in many ways but no one can pick up on it right away. Poverty is hunger the lack of shelter the face that you can be sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not being able to go out and peruse and education. Poverty is not having a job and living one day at a time.
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
Statistics shows that the cause of homelessness is because the lack of jobs. Others say that it is due to lack of housing. Several people are homeless even though they have a job. This happens because a lot of people work but they don’t make enough money to get above what is called the poverty line. Today’s estimate of fifty percent of the homeless has a full or part time job, but still don’t make enough money to pay their bills.
Jeff Doyle Sundol WRC 1013-11 1 Nov. 2010 Are Poor Americans Actually Poor? The number of Americans in poverty today is rather shocking. There are currently thirty-seven million Americans who are classified as being "in poverty" (Rector 2). Many Americans are classified below the line of poverty, but in retrospect to the rest of the world, Americans seem far from poor. America is considered to be upon the most prominent and successful nations in the world; so, why is over a tenth of our population deemed as "poor" by our government?
Poverty is the state of being extremely poor which is the result of low income. Chances are, those in poverty have not a dime to live on. After poverty attacks, it may leave you homeless and in critical health condition. You should consider yourself lucky if you’re not living through poverty’s harsh effects. Why exactly should you learn about poverty?
Corruption, school-dropouts, and alcoholism are to blame for most of the poor. The land the Native-Americans live on is hard to harvest; therefore farming for food and vegetables can be hard. Property rights on the reservation tend to be non-existent, and weaken prosperity for this culture. Most of lands that Native-Americans live are communally, no one is able to get a clear title to his or her land, making is hard to borrow money or establish credit for improvements or investments they will benefit families. This is called tragedy of the commons, when everyone owns the land no one really owns the land which results in rundown housing due to lack of investments on the property or housing.
The Economics of the Poverty What is Poverty? Poverty in America is the state of being poor, and one lacks the means of providing material needs or comforts. Unfortunately, I have to say that this is still happening in many parts of the world. Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs. Poverty has been associated, for example, with poor health, low levels of education or skills, an inability or an unwillingness to work.
Poverty What is poverty and how does if effect the people it touches. We have all been touched by poverty in some way, whether it be a commercial that pulls at the heart strings or someone asking for change on the freeway off ramp. I have personally been touched by poverty, when my family moved to Georgia in 1999, we had no support and nowhere to live. We struggled with poverty through my school years and my mother struggles with homelessness to this very day. So what is Poverty, websters dictionary defines poverty as the state of being poor.
Damian Jump Writing 95 J. Westover 11-4-2013 Causes of Homelessness Numerous national, state and local reports repeatedly indicate that there is not one single cause that leads to homelessness. However, without the financial ability to make ends meet and afford an apartment or home, individuals and families become homeless. Homelessness and poverty are inextricably linked. Poor people are frequently unable to pay for housing, food, childcare, health care, and education. Difficult choices must be made when limited resources cover only some of these necessities.
These are the income and non-income poverty. Income poverty is a type of poverty wherein the person is deprived of money and assets used to provide basic needs such as food and medicine. On the other hand, non-income poverty occurs when a person may have little money but their quality of life is poor. They do not have access to affordable services like schooling, health-care, safe water and the like. So what causes this worldwide dilemma?