Essays on Poverty

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…

Windshield Survey The Community I did my windshield survey is a city called Snellville, in the state of Georgia. Snellville is located approximately 25 miles northeast of Atlanta and 45 miles west of Athens at the intersection of U.S. Highway 78 and Georgia 124. It…

Walking downtown, l would always see people huddled on the sidewalks with blankets and big plastic bags, always asking for change and food but, I always ignored them. I now realise that they were people who were homeless, those that did not have a home…

Over the past decades there has been growing concern regarding the growing gap between men and women and men living in poverty. This has come to be known as the feminization of poverty. A notion that women are more likely to be poorer as compared…

Many communities and societies across the world are plagued with the challenge of hunger. There is quite a huge number of the world population suffering from hunger and the problem does not seem to have a permanent solution. Today, hunger has been experienced all over…