Cause Of Poverty In The United States

Poverty When most people think of poverty, the typical images usually comes to mind is someone who is homeless and is addicted to drugs or alcohol or just lazy folks grabbing government handouts that are paid for by those who are self-reliant and industries. But what most people don’t know is that a person can work a fulltime job on minimum wage and only make fourteen thousand five hundred dollars and the typical income needed for a family of four is twenty-three thousand (Steenland). So why hasn’t the minimum wage my raised according to Gabrielle Levy the attempts to bring up minimum wage have stalled, mired in unsettle economics and partisan politics. Being in poverty isn’t just in the United States it’s all over the world and it has affected millions of people. …show more content…
With people coming up with ideas and facts with reasons why poverty started like natural disasters some examples are droughts and floods and with that poverty cannot be eliminated. South Africa is one of the worst countries affected by poverty they rely on their crops to make a little income for their family and when a drought happens they lose their crops and have little or no savings to buy food and die of malnutrition or diseases (DeCapua). Another cause is from overpopulation, some people here in the United States say that the immigrants that moved to the states has caused the poverty rate to increase. With jobs being taken by the immigrant’s because they will work for less which caused high unemployment and made them live under the poverty line needing government assistance. There are so many other reasons people come up with what has caused poverty but it’s a big cycle that