Poverty, Homelessness And Unemployment
Poverty is a worldwide problem as the number people living in poverty are greater than the number living stable lives. Poverty is the state of lacking daily needs or unable to provide and sustain daily needs. Poverty is a worldwide issue as it affects the common person who constitutes to a high ratio in the world’s population. Poverty exists in two forms, absolute poverty and relative poverty. Absolute poverty is whereby an individual is not able to cater for their basic needs such food, shelter, and clothing. When an individual is poor, they are not able to satisfy their daily needs hence are termed as poor. Relative poverty describes poverty in relevance to economic status of the individual’s society …show more content…
Discrimination in the society is dangerous as some people will be left out thus lack a means they can earn their living.
Effects of poverty/homelessness/unemployment
Poverty has major effects on those who are involved, as they have to lead their lives being poor.; being poor means going through a lot of struggles from being homeless to lacking food and most of all lack of employment.
Wages and incomes
Due to unemployment and lack of education, poor people end up getting low wages and incomes. This affects the way their daily lives as they struggle their way through their daily needs (Hothersall & Bolger, 2012). Having low incomes and wages means that they have to limit their spending and spend their incomes on very important things and thus cannot afford to live a luxurious life. This makes them lead mere lives or at times lives below the mere survival level.
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Inequality makes it for a country or society to progress with development as not everyone has the chance to give out his or her best (Hothersall & Bolger, 2012). Due to inequality, the wrong people get chances that they do not deserve or have an idea about. Inequality brings exploitation in a country whereby the wealthy exploit the poor since they serve an advantage over them. In most cases, the poor depend on the rich to earn money while the rich depend on the poor to acquire cheap labor. The wealthy exercise the power to exploit the poor since they are power hence superior over the
Poverty is a worldwide problem as the number people living in poverty are greater than the number living stable lives. Poverty is the state of lacking daily needs or unable to provide and sustain daily needs. Poverty is a worldwide issue as it affects the common person who constitutes to a high ratio in the world’s population. Poverty exists in two forms, absolute poverty and relative poverty. Absolute poverty is whereby an individual is not able to cater for their basic needs such food, shelter, and clothing. When an individual is poor, they are not able to satisfy their daily needs hence are termed as poor. Relative poverty describes poverty in relevance to economic status of the individual’s society …show more content…
Discrimination in the society is dangerous as some people will be left out thus lack a means they can earn their living.
Effects of poverty/homelessness/unemployment
Poverty has major effects on those who are involved, as they have to lead their lives being poor.; being poor means going through a lot of struggles from being homeless to lacking food and most of all lack of employment.
Wages and incomes
Due to unemployment and lack of education, poor people end up getting low wages and incomes. This affects the way their daily lives as they struggle their way through their daily needs (Hothersall & Bolger, 2012). Having low incomes and wages means that they have to limit their spending and spend their incomes on very important things and thus cannot afford to live a luxurious life. This makes them lead mere lives or at times lives below the mere survival level.
Effect of poverty/homelessness on …show more content…
Inequality makes it for a country or society to progress with development as not everyone has the chance to give out his or her best (Hothersall & Bolger, 2012). Due to inequality, the wrong people get chances that they do not deserve or have an idea about. Inequality brings exploitation in a country whereby the wealthy exploit the poor since they serve an advantage over them. In most cases, the poor depend on the rich to earn money while the rich depend on the poor to acquire cheap labor. The wealthy exercise the power to exploit the poor since they are power hence superior over the