Category: Poverty in America

Poverty and Homelessness in the United States continue to grow exponentially as more and more citizens budgets continue to tighten and more families end up below the poverty line and out of their homes. The issue of Poverty and Homelessness is hard to solve and define, at what point does the middle-class sinkage constitute a…

Introduction Poverty is not having ample money to fulfill the most important needs that consist of clothing and protection of substances or regional monetary property. Poverty is a circumstance in which the community has no economic belongings and basic elements for the minimal preferred of residing poverty potential. The desires of a minimum of trends…

David Gursky, the poverty expert at Stanford explained that there are two ways that poverty can be understood. One can think of it in absolute terms- simply having insufficient resources to meet the basic demands of functioning in a contemporary world. So one can think about not having enough food, not having the shelter that…

Introduction It can be argued that teachers who engage with the issues of social justice are able to offer a more enriched academical education which formulates pupils into becoming effective contributors and confident individuals not only in society as a whole but the world of work beyond school (Arshad et al., 2012). Social Justice is…

Social justice is meant for everyone. The concept of just and fair relationships between individuals and society is important in our everyday lives, especially in education. Students should be receiving resources and being treated fairly so that they feel safe and secure to learn. Social justice can be seen differently by individuals. Some believe social…

Spent is a game that showed me the wrenching choices that people in poverty routinely encounter  many choices that Americans, such as myself, dont realize have to be a choice. In the game, I played as a single parent and made financial decisions for a month with only $1,000 to my name. Throughout the…

Does international Aid have a long-term negative effect on poverty-stricken countries, if so, how does this affect those who live in poverty and aim to grow their economies? America exporting rice to Haiti is an example of International Aid having a detrimental effect on the economy of Haiti in the long term. The local farmers…

Rising childcare cost, shortfall of federal housing assistance, and stagnant or falling incomes among the poor communities are some challenges we face in developing effective programs, services, and responsive social policies. As a result of these trends, most poor renting families now devote over half of their income to housing costs, and eviction has become…

Supporting People in Poverty Andrew Carnegie (2019) said, The best means of benefitting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise& On any particular day in America, over 600,000 individuals are homeless (Gaines, 2019). Despite the common vision to aid in economic and social equality, there is…

In California, there are many citizens and immigrants who are struggling to earn enough income to support themselves and, if applicable, ones family. The cost of living in California is so high that many families in the Bay Area, in particular, are having a hard time paying off their bills. Even though the minimum wage…