Sweatshops In Fighting Poverty

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I believe that sweatshops are effective in fighting poverty. My reason for saying this is that sweatshops provide job opportunities that are better than other job alternatives offered to the people in developing country conditions. Such as thieving, scavenging, begging, and prostitution where they don’t always make even or consistent money and are in worse living conditions than they would be working in a sweatshop. Sweatshops provide people with the ability to have a constant source of income so that they can provide necessities of life for their families. Sweatshops have the potential to pull people out of poverty, by giving people jobs and money so that they can survive. As well as when new businesses arrive it can give more people a chance

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