Path Out Of Poverty Summary

After reading Traps, Pitfalls and Unexpected Cliffs on the Path out of Poverty I was a little depressed. Traps, pitfalls and unexpected cliffs on the path out of poverty were mainly about a study that was conducted to explore the “cliff effects,” and the overall drop in household resources when poor working families become ineligible for government work support and other recourses of assistants.
Mary A. Prenovost and Deborah C. Youngblood began to invest this topic. Mary A. Prenovost and Deborah C. Youngblood conducted a survey to get their answers. The study that took place in “traps, pitfalls and unexpected cliffs on the path out of poverty” involved a survey of 78 low-income women and 32 social service providers. This survey was followed …show more content…
Prenovost and Deborah C. Youngblood came up with a few solutions of their own. They advised low-income families that their eligibility work support criteria should be updated and their increasing support levels, developing “cliff effect training” for social service providers, and improving accessibility to higher education for working parents. Mary Prenovost and Deborah Youngblood came up with three different solutions. They came up with work support programs for low-income families, revised eligibility and giving access to low-income families to a higher education to working parents. They also gave some recommendations to low-income mothers on how to deal with losing government assistant. They recommended that the government would slowly phase out benefits instead of just taking them away so that they can try/learn how to survive without help, try getting a higher education, and try not to pretend that their government assistance will not eventually cut off so they should start preparing for …show more content…
Everyone in our society tends to blame poverty the low-income families themselves than blaming the economy or inadequate social supports from the government. The government is focusing on the effects of poverty but no one is addressing it. Social construction is an idea that may appear to be natural, normal, and obvious to those who accept it, but it is actually an invention or artifact of a particular culture or society. An example of social construction from the textbook was “a raise at work or receiving irregular child support payments can cause a loss of benefits; well-being declines because the additional income is not enough to compensate for the loss. This cause long-lasting impacts because it put families in precarious financial positions and impedes their ability to become economically