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Poverty and Homelessness in the US is a big problem- How to solve it How many times do you see a homeless person on the streets, holding up a sign describing that they need help? If you were to answer that question, you probably wouldn’t know, because we see homelessness happening every day of our lives and we lose track...
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World hunger and poverty is such a major and ongoing issue, that you don’t see many people doing anything about it anymore. We have so many people living in poverty inside and out of the U.S., but no one is acting on it to decrease this problem. We have the resources and food to do it, but for some reason...
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Discrimination and poverty in America has become an issue that we have seen over the years. Many factors play a part in the connection between poverty and discrimination, including but not limited to, social, economic, and political discrimination being both linked to the fabric of the U.S welfare. Resulting in the need of income maintenance and other social programs. Knowing...
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What can be changed about poverty in America? Everything. One will never truly know poverty unless they have lived in poverty themselves. Poverty is caused by society’s trends changing. Poverty is associated with homelessness, the lack of education, a culture of poverty, epidemic diseases such as AIDS, and illiteracy overpopulation. Congress and I will help break these cycles of poverty...
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Everyone has felt hungry before or has felt embarrassed by the clothes they were wearing. Some of us have the choice to go into the kitchen and grab something out of the fridge or change the outfit we were wearing, but others don’t. More attention should be focused on ways to lower the number of children is growing up in...
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Life brings along a lot of good and bad affairs. However, we try to focus on the good which brings us happiness, but the bad affair sometimes tends to ruin the good times. One of the bad affairs that society today faces is homelessness. Homelessness can be defined as not having a fixed roof over one’s head or living in...
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The curse of poverty has plagued America since before the phrase “The American Dream” was coined. Due to poverty in America, some Americans can not even chase that dream that is so passionately sought after. The full range of the amount of people suffering from poverty in America was not even fully realized until the 1960s. The negative effects it...
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Poverty is a worldwide epidemic that is changing trends in the country’s economy and affecting the economic prosperity of the community. This social problem is within my two articles and is focused on Americans of all ages. The U.S poverty rate slightly declined last year but despite that, the Census Bureau studied that still, about 38 million people were poor...
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Supporting People in Poverty Andrew Carnegie (2019) said, “The best means of benefitting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise…” On any particular day in America, over 600,000 individuals are homeless (Gaines, 2019). Despite the common vision to aid in economic and social equality, there is skepticism about community driven social...
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Our country is in dire need of a wake-up call to the sheer number of children falling victim to poverty and how their futures are consequently affected by this epidemic. 9 out of 10 members of the National Education Union believe that poverty and low income are having disastrous results on children’s learning. In our country, over 4 million children...
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Abstract Peter Edelman’s work Not a Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America discusses a wide array of social dilemmas individuals within poverty are faced with. The book looks at the criminal justice system as related to poverty: probation, parole, jail, prisons, tickets, fines and fees all related to criminal charges. A host of other topics including...
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Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree’s 1899 study in York established that poverty could be measured through the use of a poverty line (Llewellyn, Agu and Mercer, 2015, p.44). The poverty line is defined as ‘a level of personal or family income below which one is classified as poor’ (Definition of poverty line, 2020). In 2017/18, after housing costs, 1.03 million people in...
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Rising childcare cost, shortfall of federal housing assistance, and stagnant or falling incomes among the poor communities are some challenges we face in developing effective programs, services, and responsive social policies. “As a result of these trends, most poor renting families now devote over half of their income to housing costs, and eviction has become commonplace in low-income communities”. 2...
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Homelessness is a multifaceted issue that affects millions of individuals around the world. It is a problem that transcends borders, impacting both developed and developing nations. Despite considerable efforts by governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and communities, the number of homeless individuals continues to rise, exacerbated by economic instability, lack of affordable housing, and insufficient social support systems. This essay aims...
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Introduction John Scalzi's essay "Being Poor" offers a poignant and insightful glimpse into the realities of poverty, elucidating the emotional, psychological, and practical struggles faced by those living in impoverished conditions. Written in 2005 in response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster, Scalzi's piece is a litany of statements that capture the multifaceted nature of poverty, resonating deeply with readers who...
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A Lonely Road written by Chico Harlan is the article shows the struggle of lower-middle-class and lower-class people in the Deep South because of poverty. Society needs to know poverty is a very sensitive topic in certain people’s lives. Poverty has a very thin line in terms of income between the lower middle class and the lower class, but it...
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In his article “War Against the Poor Instead of Programs to End Poverty,” Herbert J. Gans, paints a descriptive picture of what poverty was like in the early 1990’s, with several interesting, yet outdated views on how the poor were treated. While some of these views remain valid, others contrast with the present in more ways than one. With several...
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NGOs Combating Poverty in Latin America Latin America has increasingly become a struggling country in recent years. Economic decline in within the country has been steadily on the rise since the 1980’s. This decline has brought with it shortages of valuable resources within these communities. It is because of this that NGO’s, Non-governmental Organizations, have been taking action in local...
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A community is a small or large social unit in which some things are common like norms, religion, values, and identities among the people living together over there. With the gradual passage of time, there have been many changes occurring in different communities as more new people come and older people moved out, and with further developments in every field...
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Poverty is one of the main social problems the world is facing. Moreover, half of the humans in the world live in poverty. It is an unfortunate and disagreeable truth, but poverty is prevalent around the globe. It’s not that simple to explain the main root of poverty because it's neither simple nor few. Poverty is affected by the financial...
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About Tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis can affect various organs in the body (extra pulmonary form) but most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary form). It is an airborne disease transmitted primarily through aerosols of an infected individual’s cough or sneeze TB usually occurs in a latent form, having no symptoms and...
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This essay examines a 1969 speech by President Nixon that introduced Family Assistance Plan (FAP), a welfare reform proposal that would have provided a national minimum welfare benefit coupled with a work requirement for poor families. I argue that Nixon’s engaging historical distinction between “deservingness versus undeservingness” and “dependency versus independency frustrated his attempt to indicate a new progressive approach...
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When first released in 2017, It Comes at Night had a lot of potential to be a box-office hit. The trailers revealed suspense-filled scenes and promised truly frightening moments. The film featured Paul, Sarah, and their son Travis in an isolated house deep in the woods of an undisclosed location. A deadly disease has appeared and all of the survivors...
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Poverty is a major problem facing Kenya as a country. In this project, I will be tackling the causes of poverty in Kenya. I will be explaining the causes of poverty in Kenya; basically, that will be my main discussion. First, I will start by identifying the factors that cause poverty in Kenya. Secondly, I will be giving relevant examples...
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Homelessness and substance use disorder In the 1980s, homelessness reached a severe level and has become a major social and public health issue. Each day, homeless individuals grapple with a myriad of difficulties, such as lack of employment, housing, and food. For many, substance abuse can add to a list of problems such as: exacerbating their situation, leading to incarceration,...
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Homelessness is the most prevalent issue throughout the world. In the news article “Homelessness and Drug Abuse” the authors discuss a close relationship between homelessness and substance use disorders in Philadelphia. Poverty is one of the root causes of homelessness and about 90% of the homeless are addicted to drugs or are mentally ill (FitzGerald & Saltsman, 2019, p. C5)....
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These studies examine the negative and possible long-term effects brought to youth who live in low socioeconomic environments. Using data to show the possibilities of psychological disorders such as PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) along with MDD (major depressive disorder). Low-income children also receive lower academic achievement than those who live in financially stable homes where crime and substance abuse are...
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Everyone is faced with endless life challenges. Work, family, and other factors lead us as individuals to help make decisions to improve our well-being and the quality of our lives. Some people face poverty and others don’t. Today, we are here to speak about generational poverty. Generational poverty occurs in families when at least two generations have been naturally introduced...
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To what extent poverty in the Northern Triangle is responsible for the rise of nationalism in the U.S.? In 2015 when Donald Trump was campaigning for the U.S. presidency, the highlight of his election campaign was concentrated around building a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border. He promised to build a steel, 1000-mile wall to prevent people from crossing the U.S-Mexican...
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Abstract A common ideology in today’s society is that North American high school students who come from impoverished backgrounds have different academic results than their wealthier backgrounds peers. High school students living in poverty have historically underperformed compared to their wealthier peers. This is due to many reasons, many of which will be discussed in this paper. This paper will...
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