POVERTY. WHAT IS IT?
Persons in Household Poverty Line
1 $11,670
2 $15,730
3 $19,790
4 $23,850
5 $27,910
6 $31,970
7 $36,030
8 $40,090
What is poverty? How did poverty start? Are there ways we can try to fix poverty? Yes, all good questions and they will be answered in time. Let us start with the basics; what is poverty? Well the dictionary.com says that poverty is the lack of money to take care of your everyday needs to live. How did poverty start? It was always there, one person having nothing and one person having something.
If you look at the movie or book, a Christmas Carol the main character scrooge has so much wealth he does not know what to do with it but his store clerk works for nearly nothing and every penny goes to his family who has nothing.
How does a person get into poverty? There is no set way but some of the major ones that comes to everyone’s mind are lack of …show more content…
Lots of café’s have Internet and so does the public library. There is nothing wrong with leaving the home to access the internet.
ARE THE THINGS WE DOING TODAY ENOUGH TO END POVERTY
What we are doing is not enough to end poverty. If you look at the chart since 1965, it has been a steady rate between ten and fifteen present.
Look at this saying “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” (Maimonides).
We are giving people a fish every day. We need to be doing is teaching people how to fish or in today’s world we need to be teaching them how to get jobs and take care of themselves.
WHAT SHOULD IT BE?
The poverty should be where everyone can take care of themselves. If not they work for the government doing small, jobs like cleaning the roads for six hours a day and for the other six they are in school learning good life skills. Also learning what they miss in school when they either cut class or did not show up. If the person does not want to be in school, they can work for
Persons in Household Poverty Line
1 $11,670
2 $15,730
3 $19,790
4 $23,850
5 $27,910
6 $31,970
7 $36,030
8 $40,090
What is poverty? How did poverty start? Are there ways we can try to fix poverty? Yes, all good questions and they will be answered in time. Let us start with the basics; what is poverty? Well the dictionary.com says that poverty is the lack of money to take care of your everyday needs to live. How did poverty start? It was always there, one person having nothing and one person having something.
If you look at the movie or book, a Christmas Carol the main character scrooge has so much wealth he does not know what to do with it but his store clerk works for nearly nothing and every penny goes to his family who has nothing.
How does a person get into poverty? There is no set way but some of the major ones that comes to everyone’s mind are lack of …show more content…
Lots of café’s have Internet and so does the public library. There is nothing wrong with leaving the home to access the internet.
ARE THE THINGS WE DOING TODAY ENOUGH TO END POVERTY
What we are doing is not enough to end poverty. If you look at the chart since 1965, it has been a steady rate between ten and fifteen present.
Look at this saying “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” (Maimonides).
We are giving people a fish every day. We need to be doing is teaching people how to fish or in today’s world we need to be teaching them how to get jobs and take care of themselves.
WHAT SHOULD IT BE?
The poverty should be where everyone can take care of themselves. If not they work for the government doing small, jobs like cleaning the roads for six hours a day and for the other six they are in school learning good life skills. Also learning what they miss in school when they either cut class or did not show up. If the person does not want to be in school, they can work for