What Is Cyclic Poverty

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Thanks for your post! I largely agree with your post, mainly your stance on poverty. I have responded to this question in other peer post, but would now like to not only respond, but provide examples of how cyclic poverty could occur. We all know that "rough part of town" that we have either heard of, lived near, or drove by in our daily commute. The part of town where you make sure your doors are lock and you keep your eyes straight ahead and on the road. Well, families live there, often generations of families living in the same communities, venturing no more than a few blocks from where they have always lived.

There are different types of poverty with generational being the most problematic. In addition to generational poverty, situational

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