Essay On Poverty In America

You walk into the alley you and your three siblings live in. You have a small bag of food scraps you found in a dumpster. After you sit down on the hard concrete, you and your siblings dig in. You eat rarely, and only live off $1.25 a day. “Where’s mama?” your youngest sibling asks. “She’s at school. Maybe one day we’ll get to go too,” you say to your young siblings. Poverty is a really unfortunate issue. It affects 12.7% of the world’s population and 43.1 million Americans. In this essay, we will talk about the problems of poverty and what we are trying to do to fix it. First of all, what is poverty? Poverty is when you’re in an extremely poor state. You can’t afford to buy a house, car, or maybe even groceries! Poverty is happening because of changes in a country’s economy or government. They may make education price rates high and parents can’t afford to send their kids to school. There are a lot of places in which this crisis is taking place. Take India for example. One-third of the world’s poor live in India. Another fact is that nearly one-half of the world’s population lives on less than $2.50 a day and one billion children worldwide are living in poverty.

Some problems the homeless have to face are finding jobs and dealing with the effects of poverty on the brain. Many people die each year from the effects of being homeless and tons of children age 4 and younger die from diseases, starvation, and brain and body defects. Did you know that one in five homeless people suffers from an untreated severe mental illness? Poverty leads to very low education rates. Some people can’t learn basic life skills, like spelling and math because they can’t afford to go to a good school. Employers don’t want to hire these people because they have no previous track record and are