Essays on Poverty

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…

Introduction Feminization of poverty can be explained as the growing of the women population on in levels of poverty. It can also be referred to as the social practice through which the level of poverty amongst females is much higher compared to poverty among males….

Homelessness in simple terms is a condition where a person does not have a safe accommodation to live in. Abandoned and single parents, drug addicts, old men and women; these basic categories immediately hit us when the word “homelessness” comes to our mind. Transgenders are…

In this essay, I will discuss the causes of homelessness, and the effects of homelessness on people on housing, and the impact of poverty on the homeless. Homelessness is a problem that can happen to any of us, and yet we believe it’s a cause…