causes of poverty
The Causes of Poverty
There is no doubt that poverty is unfavorable, so we must ask ourselves why it exists. It is a major problem all around the world today. We need to know where poverty begins in order to plan an attack on this social epidemic. The causes of poverty are very important that should be figured out initially. Among many other factors, discrimination, job shortage, inadequate early childhood education, the increase of housing rents and the lack of health insurance are the most dominant causes of poverty. Discrimination based on race or gender directly influences economic opportunity. It is a major obstacle for development. Sometimes, more qualified individuals are passed up for jobs because of the need for a percentage of the particular race in the workforce. While this doesn’t happen very often it still happens and we need to acknowledge it. The underlying job shortage is one of the major contributors to poverty. Many adult job seekers who want to work at good-paying jobs that will lift them out of poverty, cannot find work that pays well because the government doesn’t provide enough jobs to go around and some of the jobs are made available by the government that pay wages too low to get them out of poverty. Poverty results from failing to provide all children the early education, during the first three years of their lives, that prepares their bodies, their brains to succeed in school and thus in the work and their future lives. Early childhood education programs are effective in raising achievement levels in future. So government should equalize educational opportunities so that all children have access to high-quality education. Another things which brings poverty is the increase of housing rents, which seriously affects the increase of a number of poor. In recent years the housing prices have increased. Most people living in poverty spend more than half of their income on housing. Poverty also
There is no doubt that poverty is unfavorable, so we must ask ourselves why it exists. It is a major problem all around the world today. We need to know where poverty begins in order to plan an attack on this social epidemic. The causes of poverty are very important that should be figured out initially. Among many other factors, discrimination, job shortage, inadequate early childhood education, the increase of housing rents and the lack of health insurance are the most dominant causes of poverty. Discrimination based on race or gender directly influences economic opportunity. It is a major obstacle for development. Sometimes, more qualified individuals are passed up for jobs because of the need for a percentage of the particular race in the workforce. While this doesn’t happen very often it still happens and we need to acknowledge it. The underlying job shortage is one of the major contributors to poverty. Many adult job seekers who want to work at good-paying jobs that will lift them out of poverty, cannot find work that pays well because the government doesn’t provide enough jobs to go around and some of the jobs are made available by the government that pay wages too low to get them out of poverty. Poverty results from failing to provide all children the early education, during the first three years of their lives, that prepares their bodies, their brains to succeed in school and thus in the work and their future lives. Early childhood education programs are effective in raising achievement levels in future. So government should equalize educational opportunities so that all children have access to high-quality education. Another things which brings poverty is the increase of housing rents, which seriously affects the increase of a number of poor. In recent years the housing prices have increased. Most people living in poverty spend more than half of their income on housing. Poverty also
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