Why is this so? Why does the most powerful and richest country in the world have poverty? Especially when there is an abundance of help and economic power. If that question can be answered, most assured that person would …show more content…
She talks about the underlying causes of poverty in the United States and in developing countries. She states, “One of the most basic causes in poverty is overpopulation, or having too many people in a limited space” (Lusted, 2010). Of course these applies to the developing countries but one of the causes in the United States is down trends in the country’s economy, she states that in 2008 the United States began experiencing weak economy and jobs became very difficult to obtain (Lusted, 2010). This is a direct correlation to people living in poverty, they are stuck in that same rat race with no way to pull themselves up from the