Global Poverty Course Analysis

Throughout this course, I have learned about the variety of issues that is happening in our environment and poverty is one of the human ecology subjects that lack attention in many nations. To begin with, poverty is defined as the condition where people’s basic needs for food, water, and shelter are not being met. I chose to address this topic because I feel that poverty is a state of life that affects all of humanity no matter what region they live in and it is due to the factors and decisions that influence their lives. Such causes are abusement of corporations that have power and influences to having weak government policies. Poverty also affects the physical health, such problems is associated to violence, hunger, malnutrition, overpopulation and diseases. These people have little representation in society and are the ones who struggle everyday to survive with insufficient resources.
Up to the present time, there is inequality in many nations, the gap between the rich and the poor continues to extend. A report published by Oxfam …show more content…
People have basic needs and all workers should earn enough pay to support themselves and their families. Our governments need to enforce a national living wage and they need to make law enforcement a priority to ensure that their residents can live in peace and security. Corporations should end labor abuse and require a better establishment and offer benefits to all workers. Other proposals have been taxing progressively, for instance, economist Tony Addison suggested a “top rate of 65 percent on the top 1 percent of incomes, and Thomas Pikettty recommends that countries should agree to tax personal assets of all kinds at graduated rates (Galasso &Wood, 2015). By refining our economics, having a better establishment of law and work, respecting worker’s rights, and taxing progressively we could create a healthier environment with less poverty in our