Proverty Causes and Effects

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Poverty Causes and Effects Imagine searching through big piles landfills, looking for anything that could seem partly edible, to satisfy an endless hunger. Many people around the world face this situation every day of their lives. What could have caused a situation like this to occur? The education and skill level, health status, and discrimination play a vital role in poverty. A major factor determining whether someone will end up living in poverty, education or skill level can make or break an income. Education plays a vital role in acquiring jobs, learning new skills, and bringing home necessities and comforts of life. A person who doesn’t receive an education has a very small chance of making much money and acquiring skills that would bring home a desirable income. Many who do not have an education bring their family into a cycle of poverty, where their posterity doesn’t necessarily have the income to go to college or even don’t have a desire to acquire a high school diploma. Education does not necessarily determine whether someone will make it or break it, but health statuses and handicaps can also play an important role. Health handicaps and diseases bring a lot of disaster not only to families who seem to scrape by every month, but can also decimate families whose incomes already have fallen short of what it takes to purchase and maintain the necessities of life. From acquiring diabetes to getting HIV, health attributes and diseases make working almost impossible at some points. For example, a worker who has an injury that requires a wheelchair for movement may find obtaining a job, which could be performed not standing up, very difficult. The mental and emotional damage of trying to obtain a job while needing a wheelchair or other health conditions can overwhelm a worker. Battles not only occur physically and emotionally but also commonly occur
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