Poverty

America was still reeling from the economic downturn (fuel shortages, job losses, etc.) that occurred during the Carter Administration. However, toward the end of the Reagan Administration the economy began to improve.

Reagan asked for, and Congress supplied, a huge cut in Income taxes for Americans. When the effects of that tax cut began to take effect, the economy turned around from the Carter years (which had high taxes and inflation). As the economy improved millions of Americans were lifted out of poverty and into the middle class. According to the Census Bureau, more African-Americans joined the American middle class than ever before in history. The growth in the economy continued into the Clinton presidency.

About 6.3% of the Swedish citizens live in poverty. Sweden has the least poverty in the world.

There are poor people in pretty much every country. Some countries develop extensive welfare programs to fend for the poor, while other countries leave the poor to themselves.

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No there is no registered data of poverty in Liechtenstein. Just to let you know only PIB and GDP are data from the countries, the rest is the same of Switzerland.

Over three hundred Million people in China alone live on $2.50 per day. This is considered a very low amount of money and it is very hard to get by on such a wage. but there are 1.3 Billion people in China so this represents about 3 out of 13 people in china that are in poverty. this figure was much higher in the year 1900 butsince then people in China have been growing rich. but it will take much more growth in china for it to be the most rich. even though China has the largest economy in Overall GDP just ahead of the USA. in terms of Per-capital GDP china is very poor. even if China only had 20,000 dollars per capital then Chinas GDP would be 26 trillion dollars. but this still would be far below the 40,000 per capital in the United states. so even with a economy of 26 trillion dollars a few decades from now there would still be many hypothetical people in this china that would be poor. but living on 2.50 a day would be abolished and a thing of the past by the year 2040.

I would imagine that people below the poverty level will get a tax decrease.

Presiden Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted to get rid on the slums of cities, restored people stricken with poverty back to good measures, provided education for the less fortunate, and to give full rights to blacks and other minorities.

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You're really mixed up eh? Works like this.

- Yp is absolute poverty (relative term meaning insufficient daily funds to meet basic human needs)

- H is headcount, amount of people below poverty gap.

- We use these two to measure a very large amount of values, APG being the most useless imo.

- TPG: Total amount of daily income required to pull those in absolute poverty to the required minimum. Sum of (I don't know how to write sigma for you statisticians) (Yp-Yi) so the sum of the difference between each individual and the poverty gap

-APG: TPG/N, so just the total poverty gap spread over the population, seems stupid to me.

-NPG: APG/Yp so the average poverty gap normalized with the poverty gap, always gives a value between 0 and 1 so this is usefull to compare countries.

- AIS: Average income shortfall, this ones usefull. TPG/H, spread over the poor rather than the entire population. Its how much, on average, each absolutely impoverished individual requires to escape to the minimum level of absolute poverty.

-NIS: Normalized Income shortfall, AIS/Yp, again normalized to ease comparison.

Theres also the oft used Foster0Greer-Thorbecke indexe, measurements of inequality among absolute poverty using CV or Gini concentration ratio and the human poverty index but those are all bitches to write out so look em up yourself.

It doesn't.

A true socialist society has not been formed yet in any country therefore the question is not valid. The very existence of a political class or politicians indicates that the society is not truly 'left wing'.

If a society is formed along true Marxist ideals at some point in the future, and many people regard this as the best way of saving the planet, then poverty would be neither possible or tolerated and oppression banished to the past.

a good place to ask this question is

www.socialist-federation.org/

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Genteel poverty is the condition of well bred, generally well-educated people who have little money, like a retired vicar on a fixed income.

No. I am in the same boat. I have to prove that I can make 125% above the poverty line because he is illegal and not allowed to earn anything. With the immigrant not working, the spouse has to prove ability to support their family, or else the immigrant is proving to be a strain on the economy, and that would be a good reason not to give them papers. I have gotten pretty far in the process, but now it may be dead ended because I have not made that 125% for the last three years in a row.

it helped us because they past down their traditions

There is no country in the world that does not have poverty. The percentage can be high or low. There is poverty in Croatia.

The current economy of the world is either a recession or a depression. Most people who are poor, are poor through no fault of their own. They are just living in a very bad economic conditions and have not been giving the same chances as other people have.

Poverty- the state or condition of having little or nothing. For example, homeless children, starving people, homeless people, people with little food or necessary human needs.

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More luck to honest poverty. It claims respect, and all that; but honest wealth's a better thing, we dare be rich for all that

In the poverty cycle it is clear that ( developing countries) have low income levels, this means that their saving level is very low( MPS is low) , low saving will mean there are no funds in the financial system so investors will find it difficult to obtain loans and to invest, this will hinder economic growth and eventually development.

Obtaining foreign aid means that having funds which if used efficiently will boost investment and hence boosting economic growth - breaking the poverty cycle-. However, there are many criticism on the scenario.

without water, a person can die from dehydration, which is what most poor and homeless have to go through. Sometimes, people are so dry, they cant sweat. Also, if a person isn't clean, their hygenie could really suck, theyd be infected, and take you to some disease which I-don't-know-the-name-of.

In our modern life and times, a woman can never make more than a man. This means that she will always be making less than she could and this results in poverty.

Inadequate social welfare assistance affects people who are impoverished by leaving them in poverty and not providing them further economic aid to raise their standard of living.

The top ten countries with the highest poverty rates are:

1. Congo Dominican Republic

2. Zimbabwe

3. Liberia

4. Guinea-Bissau

5. Somalia

6. Comoros

7. Solomon Islands

8. Niger

9. Ethiopia

10. Central African Republic

The ability to qualify for government support.