What must a person earn each year to stay above what the US considers to be the poverty level?
11,000 dollars
What is the impact of poverty in environment?
The poor rural people cut jungle woods to be used as fuel for their livlihood. This impacts a lot on global environment and is one of the reasons for drought/flood in various countries beyond standardized norms.
How can poverty be reduced and prevented?
You can reduce poverty by donating money and helping the people in poverty get good medicine, good food and a better life. Also you can join the the United Nation and help them help the people who are suffering.you can also set up fund raiseres for money to be donated to the poor
How can education address poverty?
If people receive a decent education they will obtain the qualifications that they need to go on to further education such as university and into the workplace. Education will improve literacy and numeracy skills which again will benefit people when applying for jobs. Furthermore, education will lead to well paid jobs which will then allow you to afford a nice house, car, holidays etc and you'll "escape" from poverty.
What is considered to be the poverty level in the US?
The 2007-2008 poverty threshold was measured according to the HHS Poverty Guidelines[17] which are illustrated in the table below. {| ! ! ! ! | Persons in Family Unit 48 Contiguous States and D.C. Alaska Hawaii 1 $10,400 $13,000 $11,960 2 $14,000 $17,500 $16,100 3 $17,600 $22,000 $20,240 4 $21,200 $26,500 $24,380 5 $24,800 $31,000 $28,520 6 $28,400 $35,500 $32,660 7 $32,000 $40,000 $36,800 8 $35,600 $44,500 $40,940 For each additional person, add $3,600 $4,500 $4,140 SOURCE: Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 15, January 23, 2008, pp. 3971-3972. |}
What is the poverty threshold?
The "poverty line" is the level of income that separates the people who live in poverty from everyone else. It is not an official line and no specific income has been established as the "poverty line". It is an expression used in conversation to replace the lengthy expression "the level of income that separates poor people from people who are not poor".
What is the importance of studying poverty?
Wealth in the hands of people. Makes them think themselves more important, or aloof from those who lack money. Pride develops (distinction), envy... when someone comes along with more wealth. Not that wealth is wrong but a person has "TO REALISE WHO THE WEALTH BELONGED TO BEFORE I GOT MY TINY PORTION OF IT" and into whose energy it will go back into after the annihilation of all material bodies, and worlds.
Humility is a diamond that has no monetary value, but it is the most precious trait of humans. Poverty, is important, because it keeps your head grounded on the reality of this temporary material world, and body of 100 years if your un?lucky?
How can a person claim to to be so powerful and rich if it's all going to be taken off him at the time of death? It's a fantasy and illusion, and for anyone who wants to experience the eternal youthfulness of the spiritual world, being possessive, greedy and miserly over the stool on offer on this planet, is next to insanity, when it all ends, and your faith is tested, and what you think about at the time of death denotes your next body... Yam Yam Vapi smaram bhavam
Bhagavad GIta (as it is) CH8 text6
God knows what he's talking about
Govinda!
How many children in US live in poverty?
According to NetAid, over a billion people, or roughly one in six, live in extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is defined as living on less than US$1 a day. The World Bank goes on to define moderate poverty as basic subsistence living, on $1 to $2 a day. All told, nearly half the world's population lives in poverty -- that's 2.8 billion people living on less than two dollars a day.
The Human Poverty Index (HPI) is used by the United Nations to indicate the standard of living in a specific country. It was first launched in 1990. It measures the amount of deprivation people experience in different countries. According to the measurements of deprivations countries are then ranked according to their HPI. Every year the UN publishes a list of countries, which rank the countries according to their HPI. This list shows which countries has the highest to lowest standards of living. Factors which are taken into consideration when ranking countries include: The probability at birth of not surviving to age 60, People lacking functional literacy skills, Long-term unemployment, and Population below 50% of median income. According to the 2009 list Norway is ranked number 1, followed by Australia, Iceland, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Switzerland and Japan. The 10 lowest ranked countries are Guinea-Bissau, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Niger.
What can we do to help poverty?
Its all about giving them food, sitting down and talking with them, helping out at some of the homeless hostels like the Salvation Army will do a great deal of help but most of all. Give them a few pounds so they can get a meal.
Why do you think poverty plays such an important role in spreading wild spread illnesses?
Well, I think one will be lack of many kinds of things, especially, health caring when one is in a bad condition of money. One can not make a well preparation for one's live without any properties.!!
yeah poverty affect the health for more info watch :
http://hharayofhope.blogspot.in/2012/04/end-of-poverty-serge-la-touche-clip.html
Why don't some people care about poor people?
Some people don't care about poor people because of many different reasons. Most of the people who don't care about the poor believe they're too "high and mighty" for the poor and may just flat out not care about the poor and see them as "savages". Other people don't care about the poor because they don't know what it is like to be poor.
What are the causes of poverty in Kenya?
Some causes of poverty in Kenya include high levels of unemployment and underemployment, income inequality, lack of access to quality education and healthcare, inadequate infrastructure, and reliance on agriculture, which is vulnerable to climate change and market fluctuations. Political corruption and mismanagement of resources also contribute to the persistence of poverty in the country.
Which factor is the best indicator of a family that is below the poverty line?
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ConservitAtives
Poverty is a "relative" term and commonly referred to the material sense, in the case of Sabah.
Sabah is actually rich (culture, raw materials, etc). But, because the distribution of these richness is not efficient, you would have your "poverty". Efficiency is low because the information that is needed to manage those richness has not been understood.
Hence, Sabah is in poverty because there is a strong censor on information particularly about property rights.
What is all about the poverty of a woman who turned herself into a stone?
how will you tackle the situation of being one of the oppressed and deprived people of society if you where the women in the poem "THE POVERTY OF A WOMEN WHO TURNED HERSELF INTO STONE"
What is the issue of poverty around the world?
How?
Poverty has been one of our worlds major problems. From more than 26,500 children dying every day from starvation to 10.6 million kids dying under the age of 5 before the year of 2003. Some other answers to the question that many people ask are, mostly every stop we make we have to bear and see a homeless person seeking money.
According to UNICEF, 25,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they "die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.
Infectious diseases continue to blight the lives of the poor across the world. An estimated 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, with 3 million deaths in 2004. Every year there are 350-500 million cases of malaria, with 1 million fatalities: Africa accounts for 90 percent of malarial deaths and African children account for over 80 percent of malaria victims worldwide.
"Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.".
Now stop and think. poverty is an issue.
-yanelli aziz
Thomas Malthus
Where is the Southern Poverty Law Center located?
Southern Poverty Law Centre is located at: 400 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, AL 36104. Telephone Number: (334) 956 8200. They are open everyday from 9am till 4:30pm.