The Cause Of Inner City Poverty

America has been considered a country with one of the highest standards of living in the world, but are all fifty states really living “the American dream”? America has typically been associated with prosperity and wealth, but are all fifty states really living, “the American dream”? Within areas of central Ohio people are suffering everyday from the growing issue of poverty. Many researchers would agree that poverty is multidimensional, extraordinarily complex, and hard to understand. Why do people live like this? Economists would say poverty is an issue of labor markets, productivity, human capital, and free choice. But the average person would categorize poverty as a certain behavior, social status, and culture.
Everyday more and more people
As a result, its conclusions generally argue that the poor are not much different from the rest of the population. In “ The Causes of Inner City Poverty…” Michael B. Tietz said, “They have less money, but their poverty status will usually not be permanent as their life circumstances change” (Tietz, 2007, p.120). If more organizations and outlets of help were established and providing for those who are suffering from poverty the constant growing poverty rate would diminish, and their life circumstance would be changed. If people began to give a small portion of their income, even a simple donation every couple of months to organizations that help those who are in need, poverty rates would drop miraculously. Donated money could be invested and put toward opening newer food pantries and soup kitchens for people to eat, help centers for people to learn about managing their small income, as well as a place where their everyday necessities are provided for them for almost no
As Columbus has had the highest poverty growth rate over the last seventeen years, what can the community do to allow all people to live “the American dream”? Spreading awareness, giving people opportunities to help, and creating new ways to give to those suffering will put an end to the problem. Willingness and drive is what will take a growing poverty rate and flip it upside down. There is no easier solution than one that by simply telling someone about the poverty issue might lead someone to give or lead another to start an organization. By realizing this issue, a chain reaction automatically starts. A chain reaction that only helps dissolve the issue, not the issue bigger. The issue of poverty within central Ohio can easily be conquered if those who have the ability to act, decide to act. The opportunities to help are circling around the community, waiting for someone to grab ahold of them a start the