Poverty

the most resent study (2007) has shown that an average amout of people in America living in poverity is- 37 million, i saspect though, that it has increased drasticly, especially since economic times.

Although by the 1950s the United States was an affluent country, poverty persisted for several reasons, and within several groups. First, segregation was still very much a part of the American landscape, and in some very unexpected ways. While most would imagine the south to be segregated with Jim Crow laws still in place, the north also was segregated in the jobs and living areas, blacks were allowed to take part in. Poor whites in the Appalachian area subsisted with little or no education, low job opportunities, and early marriages that resulted in large families ,which kept them at the poverty level.

They got trapped in a "cycle of poverty" by them now working as sharecroppers because they were still like slaves working for someone else but they would maybe get something here and there if they paid for it or had a credit which sometime they would have to pay off by giving the land owner more crops. BUT, if your crops didn't grow so abundant you would be short and living in a life of debt.

Because the science of stars concentrates on poor people because they're cooler and they eat more. And plus because i like to give poor people cheese.

One of the biggest reasons many people in Africa live in poverty is because they have been shafted by their own leaders and governments who have ammassed fortunes at the expense of their citizens.

John F. Kennedy is indirectly referring to nuclear weapons as having the power to abolish all forms of human life and the power to abolish all forms of human poverty.

yes Ethiopia is in poverty it is the 2 most populated place in Africa plus some people live on 25c a day it is in abject poverty

The primary cause of the cycle of poverty and illiteracy in many developing nations is lack of proper management of resources. This will result into unequal distribution of wealth and resources.

whatever you can do today don't put off for tommorrow

Well global warming alters the weather and temperatures. So an area that gets enough rain might not get enough so that would suck for crops and animals, they would die or not have the same harvest amount or kilos of meat. Industrial poisions can leak into the ground and spread killing amimals and plantaions if swept to a main water course like a river that is used for drinking and watering. Just stuff like that

poverty is nothing but lack of basic standards of living. it might include less money or salary say 1$ per day, less education, improper health care, sanitation etc. these all factors contribute to underdevelopment.

Nothing makes people poor. Poverty is the natural state of people. Rather, you should ask what makes people rich. The lack of the things that make people rich is what makes people poor.

Over 8 million people die because they are simply to poor to buy food or to stay alive. More than 800 Million people go hungry every day! 6 million children die every year before their fifth birthday! Alot of people live in poverty! I am doing a speech on it so i know quite a bit!

23%. Especially obamas family

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What is considered the poverty level for a single person in ontario canada

Australia is a relatively wealthy country and there is a safety net that protect people from falling into complete abject poverty, In Other words if you have no source of income or have become unable to work for any reason you will receive assistance and an income. food is reasonably priced and medical care and medicines are also provided for those that can not afford them. Compared to the conditions that exist in many other country's of the world the system while open to improvement is pretty good.

Absolute Poverty is when people do not have enough money to meet the basic threshold that is needed for survival. People fall below this line and do not have enough money to buy food, shelter, clothing etc. that is needed for survival.

Relative Poverty is when people are poor when compared to others around them, but may still have enough money to survive. It is based on the cultural environment around them, not on a basic amount necessary for all humans to survive.

According to relative poverty, if you live in an expensive neighborhood, and you have everything you need to get by, but do not own luxurious things, you could still be said to be in poverty when compared to the people around you, even though you have everything you need. Relative poverty changes more often and adjusts to the changes in society (food and housing becoming more expensive in certain areas, more jobs etc.) whereas absolute poverty stays the same, and this could be problematic for absolute poverty, when comparing neighborhoods that differ, and when you compare cross-nationally.

Living in poverty (lacking the basic necessities such as food, shelter, employment) is usually detrimental to the physical and mental health of individuals and families. Some, however, have found ways to improve their way of life, often with help from charities, public agencies, and philanthropic enterprises.

Many have argued that the mining industry in Ghana has strong potential to generate taxes and related revenue and employment, substantial enough to provide significant economic benefits to the country and improved livelihood for the population. However, over-bloated tax concessions and incentives to investors in the mining sector leave little in the way of retained earnings for visible national development efforts. The situation is exacerbated by the growing exclusive use of surface mining technology by mines coming on-stream since the reforms. This has constrained employment opportunities in the sector. Indeed the controversy surrounding the appropriateness of government taxation of private business in general is an age-old one which has been aptly captured by a recent World Bank sponsored study on mineral royalties in the mining industry globally: === === Mining activities, particularly surface mining activities, have resulted in the alienation of large tracts of land from communities, depriving poor and marginalised communities of their land surface rights, and as a result depriving many communities of their sources of livelihood. The appropriation of the land of local communities for mining has often engendered social upheavals and adversely impacted on the routine livelihood activities of these communities. Such social upheavals are commonplace in communities affected by mining projects in Ghana. The growing incidence of conflict between mining communities and their chiefs on one hand, and the mining companies on the other hand, echoes the growing concerns about the effects of the mining-sector-led SAP on the population (Akabzaa, 2000). From 1990-98, mining investment in gold in the Wassa West District resulted in the displacement of 14 communities with combined populations of 30,000. The displacement process has been criticised for a number of weaknesses. Apart from being cumbersome and subject to considerable delays, the compensation packages awarded by mining companies to Ghana's subsistence groups generally do not account for farmers who lose land to a mining project at a time when no crops are planted; strictly provide one-off payments for tree crops without factoring in the gestation period; and are not awarded to the many 'landless' hunters and palm wine tappers who have lost their means of livelihood as a result of mine expansion (Andoh, 2002).

Scarce resources are allocated to those who are willing and able to pay the most in a free economy.

President Johnson created the Office of Economic Opportunity to coordinate a series of new antipoverty programs. These programs included the Job Corps, Head Start, Volunteers in Service to America, and a program that allowed American Indians to establish poverty programs on reservations.

All of these programs required the approval of Congress and all required that taxpayers pay for them.

No, the federal reserve does not set the poverty threshold in the United States. The poverty threshold is set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services based on statistics gathered from many of their departments.