The Issue Of Poverty In America

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Poverty is defined differently by each country because the standards they hold economically on the word. In America, the word poverty is defined as “failure to meet income parameter...” (Morton 1). Poverty is still a big issue in America because there is very little things being done to end the cycle and more on why this is still happening. Most factors that are being said to cause the never ending issue is immigration, having a lot of people enter America with little or no money at all, urbanization which has companies go into suburban areas and pay homeowners an amount of money to leave their home so new things can be made and jobs where people are losing jobs because of location or the company not having enough money to pay all of the

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