What is the reason why a substantial amount of resident still living in the“sub-divided flats ”which is a special phenomenon in Hong Kong among the world? How to explain a big proportion of population still receiving a salary that is not sufficient for them to improve their well-being?
It is an obvious fact that the quantity of indigent people has proliferated and become a serious problem that need to be alleviated effectively. As a social worker, I think a series of measures which are implementing by government currently are not working very well, and in my opinion, some creative approach should be made to address the problem.
There are several measures than created by government are ineffective. Social work, for instance, some new occupations …show more content…
Or have a long term planning what they created these job opportunities? The answer is very apparent. No. In my opinion, poverty is not only a problem but also are the results of policies failure, social structure failure and the failure of resources distribution. The situation mentioned above was a good example of policy failure. For the social structure failure, the whole social system make people really hard to climb up, individuals are unable to get a good job without a high education level. There is no doubt that the pursuit of certifications allow employers able to identify the employee with sufficient education level, but, it also eliminating the opportunities among the people who are not good at study and have a outstanding academic performance.Actually, many of these people are working in the field which are essential and making contribution to our society, such as chef, plumber or cleaner. This dysfunctional social structure make these skillful workers become working poor even though their contribution are important for …show more content…
They are unable to afford extra money to be educated, to improve their skills in order to get a good job, as the result, they will keep their poor stage and no way to go. If government stop cooperate with private housing builders, and focus on the supply of public housing, or force those company to set a affordable price for common resident, then, the poverty problem will be improve significantly. To imagine, if people only use their 20%-40% of income on housing, they will have more motivation to consume and spend their money on their aspects of life, as the result, the whole economical environment will be activate, more and more jobs will supply in society, in the meanwhile, employer also willing to rise up their employer’s salary as they keep making profits from their business, when all people get a job with a reasonable and sufficient income, the problem of poverty will be eliminated.
In summary, government always plays an indispensable in tackle poverty problem, the only question is: when and how does the Hong Kong government will do
It is an obvious fact that the quantity of indigent people has proliferated and become a serious problem that need to be alleviated effectively. As a social worker, I think a series of measures which are implementing by government currently are not working very well, and in my opinion, some creative approach should be made to address the problem.
There are several measures than created by government are ineffective. Social work, for instance, some new occupations …show more content…
Or have a long term planning what they created these job opportunities? The answer is very apparent. No. In my opinion, poverty is not only a problem but also are the results of policies failure, social structure failure and the failure of resources distribution. The situation mentioned above was a good example of policy failure. For the social structure failure, the whole social system make people really hard to climb up, individuals are unable to get a good job without a high education level. There is no doubt that the pursuit of certifications allow employers able to identify the employee with sufficient education level, but, it also eliminating the opportunities among the people who are not good at study and have a outstanding academic performance.Actually, many of these people are working in the field which are essential and making contribution to our society, such as chef, plumber or cleaner. This dysfunctional social structure make these skillful workers become working poor even though their contribution are important for …show more content…
They are unable to afford extra money to be educated, to improve their skills in order to get a good job, as the result, they will keep their poor stage and no way to go. If government stop cooperate with private housing builders, and focus on the supply of public housing, or force those company to set a affordable price for common resident, then, the poverty problem will be improve significantly. To imagine, if people only use their 20%-40% of income on housing, they will have more motivation to consume and spend their money on their aspects of life, as the result, the whole economical environment will be activate, more and more jobs will supply in society, in the meanwhile, employer also willing to rise up their employer’s salary as they keep making profits from their business, when all people get a job with a reasonable and sufficient income, the problem of poverty will be eliminated.
In summary, government always plays an indispensable in tackle poverty problem, the only question is: when and how does the Hong Kong government will do