Therefore, like an ignorant individual, I assumed that my living was the standard of living of everyone else’s. I had many richer friends, which also made me think that my standard of living was average. However, thinking critically, there are tons of people who do not have the means or the grades to go to an educational level beyond high school and therefore receive minimum wage jobs without a good opportunity for promotion because those will be handed to people with the higher educational people. Also, that leaves very little room to improve the condition of living that you find yourself in. Therefore most of the times you will find yourself marrying an individual of the same economic class due the nature that nobody wants to date someone of lower class as you.
Those that get lucky and have a support group tent to make it to the end in order to receive their diploma or certificate and attain a better paying job. What I have learned after doing research and watching the videos provided, my perspective changed only towards the government. The government is somewhat at fault for generational poverty. They know that the schools offer education based on their resources and if schools in these areas aren’t offered enough resources they cannot provide a quality education for those kids. They claim that without a quality education, generational poverty will never cease.
About 1.7 billion people live in absolute poverty. Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country, or compared to worldwide averages. Dictionary.com has described poverty as the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence. About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. As a group we have concluded that a person is consider in poverty when they cannot afford the basic necessities of life including: food, shelter, drinking water, and clothes.
Poverty can exist in rich and civilized countries to an extreme extend In many other countries, people believe that poverty doesn’t exist in the U.S. They believe that every individual has the resources to survive and provide for the families, but that is not true. It may not too very obvious for other people to see, but there are many people who face poverty and are looking for ways to get out of it in the U.S. Due to lack of resources, people struggle to break out of the cycle of poverty. According to Census Bureau Report (2001), "The official poverty rate in the U.S. increased for four consecutive years, from a 26-year low of 11.3% in 2000 to 12.7% in 2004, and then declined somewhat to 12.3% in 2006. This means that 36.5 million people (approx 1 in 8 Americans) were below the official poverty thresholds in 2006, compared to 31.1 million in 2000, and that there was an increase of 5.4 million poor from 2000 to 2006 while the total population grew by 17.5 million The poverty rate for children under 18 years old increased from 16.2% to 17.8% from 2000 to 2004 and had dropped to 17.4% in 2005 and 2006".
It’s a good thing that you can get help when you live in poverty. Kids need to go to school to grow up with knowledge of the social world. If the children didn’t went to school, they would not be able to live a normal life and maybe get a job and work hard to get money. They must learn to for example read in order to get a job later in life. As the text says: “I think that our kids are going to have a lot harder time than we’ve had” which is a scary thing, because if they must have it harder than their parents who are already living on $11 then it ends with the children living in more poverty than parents.
Sometimes even having that may not get you a good enough job to provide for your family. The way prices are for things now a day it’s hard for anyone to provide for their family living in poverty would only make things worse. I feel for the people who may not be able to read or write. It makes me want to help them because those are basic skills to even get a job in general and without those that’s not possible to obtain a job. The fact that they say if you grow up in poverty you are more than likely to stay in poverty when you get older makes me feel for them even more because that means the kids that grow up may not know the difference and may grow up thinking that’s how they are supposed to live, unless they have friends that are in the middle class or above they may never know what it’s like to not be in poverty.
Because of the current state the economy is in, it has been difficult for people to earn a decent paycheck or even sometimes find a job to support their families. Therefore many have become poverty stricken and wind up living in the streets. The American government was merely created to serve one purpose and that purpose is to serve the people faithfully and thoroughly. This idea may seem so simple, but has shown to be very difficult. If the government was created to help the people, why have so many people struggled and suffered under this kind of leadership.
They had poorer education and health services than whites and suffered great prejudice. The Vanishing Americans The Native Americans were the original settlers of the North American continent. They almost disappeared during rapid expansion of the USA. Most lived in extreme poverty and suffer discrimination. They were also losing their culture.
In the United States of America, there are mainly two kinds of economic statuses seen: very wealthy and very poor. The middle class which is also known as the working class, often leads down to poverty more then up to wealth. An example of this is Ms. Ehrenreich Although Ms. Ehrenreich was not starving or literally homeless, she was nearly living in poverty. She was not living in a stable home that is steady against wind, storms or any natural disasters; she was merely living a in a trailer. Of course, she could have rented a more stable home, but with her current job that pays minimum wage that is nearly impossible.
In 2011 Mississippi was ranked the poorest state in America with an average household income of $36,919. They were also ranked the lowest in the United States for per capita income. Ronald Reagan once said, “We fought a war on poverty and poverty won.” With forty-six million Americans now counting was counted as poor, it’s tempting to think we may have been right. This problem has left many families stranded to die of starvation, freezing to death, etc. The purpose of middle class and rich Americans is the responsibility to minimize he poverty level in our country.