Essays on 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…

Homelessness is a serious issue and it is increasingly becoming a huge problem in Tasmania. Homelessness in Hobart alone has risen by 21 percent in the last 5 years. The controversy over the homeless is becoming a serious issue and the lives of many in…

Zambia being one of the developing countries has a number of strategies to enable her reach a certain level of standard of living. Poverty has been a serious disease in Zambia and many strategies where put across to see to it that poverty is reduced….

In recent years, there has been an upward trend in the number of homeless people (Shinn, Gibbons-Benton, & Brown, 2015). Homelessness is a situation where one lacks proper housing, which may lead to spending nights in streets, in unstable housings or in vehicles. Homelessness occurs…

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…

The cause of poverty is inequality in income distribution and is due to the lack of access by the majority to a means of living, employment that meets the needs of the individual. Income distribution in the United States is becoming increasingly unequal. In the…

This paper is about how Peter Singer and Kelsey Timmerman view the problem of global poverty and labor in poor countries. Both authors are utilitarian’s but have a very different outlook on the problem that is occurring. “Utilitarianism is a form of consequentialism. What the…

To put into perspective the issue of poverty a CNN report published on July 8, 2015 suggested that 71% of the world’s population remain low-income or poor, living off $10 or less a day, The data and result was from a Pew Research Center report…

Its 10:00 on a busy Saturday night in Melbourne, outside Flinders station is an old man, huddled in the cold, laying down on the hard floor in tattered clothes, covered in newspapers and surrounded by empty beer bottles. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Well, this image…

Poverty Line Income The poverty line income is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a specific country. We can calculate the poverty threshold by determining the total costs of the resources that are essential for an average human adult that is consumed in…