We have heard far too many times during childhood socialization, “work hard, stay in school and you will never be poor”. In fact, poverty is largely due to a social structure. By no means is poverty a result of laziness, or irresponsibility, in fact this is primarily because of the degrading quality of jobs being offered, the lack of full time employment, not to mention the affordable housing crises that we have been experiencing for far too long. These societal issues are at a macro level, no wonder why people are being pulled into the two dollar a day poverty with no real possibilities of getting out.
According to the US department of housing and urban development families that spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing are considered “cost burdened” and are at risk of being unable to afford other essential living expenses, in order to survive. Now a day it’s nearly impossible for a full-time worker earning minimum wage to find a two-bedroom apartment without becoming “cost burdened”. See “Who needs affordable housing? …show more content…
Many blamed this rise to welfare trend.
United States first determined an official poverty line in 1969, while the goal was to adjust every year to ensure a constant standard of living. There was no clear trend in poverty after 1969, either up or down. However, two problems arose and were never corrected. First, the Consumer Price Index was to be used to adjust the poverty line for inflation. On the other hand, it somehow rose faster than the cost of living.
Second, the official measure uses pretax money income to measure families economic resources; As a result of these problems, roughly half the families who have been classified as poor have a higher standard of living than families with incomes at the poverty line had in 1969. See “The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?,” April 2,
According to the US department of housing and urban development families that spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing are considered “cost burdened” and are at risk of being unable to afford other essential living expenses, in order to survive. Now a day it’s nearly impossible for a full-time worker earning minimum wage to find a two-bedroom apartment without becoming “cost burdened”. See “Who needs affordable housing? …show more content…
Many blamed this rise to welfare trend.
United States first determined an official poverty line in 1969, while the goal was to adjust every year to ensure a constant standard of living. There was no clear trend in poverty after 1969, either up or down. However, two problems arose and were never corrected. First, the Consumer Price Index was to be used to adjust the poverty line for inflation. On the other hand, it somehow rose faster than the cost of living.
Second, the official measure uses pretax money income to measure families economic resources; As a result of these problems, roughly half the families who have been classified as poor have a higher standard of living than families with incomes at the poverty line had in 1969. See “The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?,” April 2,