Essays on Poverty in America

If you search up the definition of poverty on google, the first answer you will get is “the state of being extremely poor.” This statement alone is a very broad definition and could relate to many other things. Poverty affects so many people globally and…

As author Robert B. Reich said it in his essay called “Why is the Rich getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer.?’ He stated the three reasons that play crucial roles in the United State economy. These are routine producers, in-person servers, and symbolic analysts. Reich…

As George Marshall once said, “It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace. Our…

The Washington Post cites “a toxic collection of pathologies—poverty, unemployment, domestic violence, sexual assault, alcoholism, and drug addiction” as some of the many issues that afflict high percentages of the Native American community (Horwitz 2014). Statistically, minority groups in America have higher rates of poverty;…

Homelessness in America is on the rise. In any metropolitan city, there is an innumerable amount of people living on the street, on sidewalks, in parks, and in city designated tent areas. On any given night in 2017, approximately 554,000 people could be found sleeping…

War on Terror, War on Poverty, War on Everything.What comes into your mind? More death? More injuries? More taxes? Yet, war doesn’t seem end anything soon. War on drugs is probably the longest war US government and its citizens have faced since President Nixon declared…

This essay proposes an original account of poverty, which tries to think about poverty as a context, without disregarding poverty as such. As ‘context’ in its language use refers to the relevant referentials of the communicative situation that influence and give a meaning to the…

Children living in poverty in the United States is often under-reported or seldom thought of because America is one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Looking at television you often see many commercials advocating fundraising for foreign nations but rarely if ever for American…

Capitalism can be followed back to the Middle Ages in Europe, and this financial framework has been adding to the entire human race for quite a long time. It is the concept of production in which capital is privately owned and the economy is regulated…

Race and poverty America is always projected as a world superpower, a developed nation with rich people. Something as downtrodden and unfortunate such as poverty is never associated with America. However, the truth is a far cry from this assumptions and indications. According to a…