Essays on Poverty

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;…

When looking at issues relating to adolescence, there are several that come to mind. The main issue that i am going to be talking in this essay, is poverty. oday, many adolescents are growing up in poverty, and face many challenges because of it, especially…

I decided to go with the option of discussing the origins of the stigmas associated with women and poverty, along with some of the gender issues of poverty. Being a single mom isn’t easy work, and they are rarely credited for all that comes along…

Introduction In 1943 Bengal famine struck, with an accumulated death toll between 2.7 and 3 million alone (Sen, 1977), the people of Bengal suffered a period of hunger and deprivation for an extended period of time. A calamity of such a grand scale caused a…

First Nation children and adolescents are overrepresented in the child-welfare system in Canada. Additionally, placements in foster homes are rarely stable, with children and adolescents constantly moving from one foster home to another. Moreover, parents of First Nation descent are rarely selected for foster-care work….

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…