One of the utmost major problems we have in society today is poverty. Firstly, …show more content…
Surely, they were just as bad or even worse.” While many people may believe that North Korea or the Dust Bowl was worse than poverty, they were incorrect. They might argue, North Korea is run by a Hitler-like dictator, who has inhuman punishments and strict rules and that is a truly terrible thing. But, unlike North Korea, poverty is inescapable, unfixable, and cannot be eliminated from our world. In the article “Escape From North Korea”, a young woman tells her story about her and her mother trying to escape North Korea, in her story she confirms that when people finally leave the country they are plagued by poverty and fear of being sent back to North Korea, poverty is now a big problem for them. People might also say, the Dust Bowl was a huge problem in the 1930’s that cost many people their lives and their jobs. Yes, that is terrible, but as more people died the more the dust got worse and the more people moved out, costing them their jobs and their homes, they then had lost the job they had and their source of income, becoming poor. All of the other problems lead to the one big problem, poverty. People who escape North Korea fall into poverty and people around during the dust bowl lost their jobs and money. Poverty is the real problem