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Analysis Of Peter Singer's Solution To Poverty

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In the analysis of Peter Singer's Solution To Poverty, we may conclude that he sees poverty as a major flaw caused by the lack of empathy society shows each other. American society normalizes overlooking minority groups, such as people of color or immigrants. Tara Westover in Educated gives a personal perspective of the struggles she faced while overcoming poverty. However, she beat the odds and is now an academic scholar with many inspiring works. Although the authors came to an adequate solution, in both their works, to solve poverty as we look at their solutions through the lenses of someone like Westover, we can conclude that people of color, single mothers, and people who do not fall under the category of white male, may find it difficult …show more content…

Or Westover as she sees lack of education is forcing poverty as it makes it harder to get a well paying job. John Stossel in "US Government Assistance Has Generated Native American Poverty" states the American government system is to blame because of the segregation that still lies in society. In the analysis of Singer, Westover, and Stossel’s articles and how different nationalities and independent women may suggest that the common American Dream could be harder to achieve for some stereotyped groups and indicates it may be easier for other groups who start above the poverty line to achieve these goals.
Peter Singer, the author of “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”, introduces the idea that all extra money from hard-working Americans should be donated to people in poverty. “That’s right: I’m saying you shouldn’t buy that new car…”, states Singer (Singer). He uses extreme examples to simply say Americans are selfish and greedy, which leads to mass amounts of poverty. However, Obama claims that lacking good job opportunities is the leading cause of poverty …show more content…

In the analysis of Westover’s Educated, we conclude that her solution to poverty is through education. She backs this up by sharing her personal testimony, she is a living example of how the government was helpful to a minority group. As a young child she relized her calling was to pursue a higher education, however she was riased in a very religious family who saw women as a minority compared to men. Westover contradicts her steryotype and gets into a good college, and as she pursues her degree she works many jobs, at least two at a time. Although, after she received her grant she was able to go back to one job and comfortably pay for much of her tuition, books, food, and rent. From that point on she had her fire reignited, she broke her odds and set standards high for independent women. “I am not my own hero” she still claims despite all her work, she still insists the government is her saving grace. Contradicting the belief of Stossel who not only disagreed with Westover, but would exclaim that she needed to go to her community for help rather than seeking a government funded grant. Stossel may also claim it was a crutch to prove she could be independent, which goes against his belief of unity in

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