Homeless Field Observation Report

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Every morning on my way to school, I see poor people. I see people in each two corners asking for help, the majorities of them had slept in those corners. They are homeless and they experience hunger, cold, and have to face horrible conditions. Homelessness life is very sad and inhuman. They go through their days not knowing if they are going to eat, be able to take a shower, to survive that day, don’t even knowing where they are going to sleep. I understand that the action, to solve the problem of the poverty that those individual goes through had been taken. However, there are more than 52,000 people in homeless shelters, including about 22,000 children, which means that there is some type of help out there, but it’s not enough (Anonymous, 2013). …show more content…
Poverty is not only bad because you are part of the low class of the society, but because of the inhuman conditions. We can solve poverty, but before we do that we should investigate poverty by looking at urban social disorder, worklessness, lack of education and the shortcoming of government policy, after investigating this, we have to understand and take action (Edsall, 2014). My proposition to solve poverty is to get help from the government and the richest people from the city. My plan is to make the government and the richest people from the city in charge of cover the education of those people. The rich people will pay for the education and the government will pay for their necessities. I believe that the key of the solution for those people is to get an education to they be able of go out of

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