More than 3 billion lives are devastatingly affected everyday by poverty which is nearly half of the world’s population. Out of that 3 billion, only 12 million get out although,
5 years after they get out, roughly half of them will become poor again. This torturous cycle has plenty of people asking themselves, “Can poverty be solved?”
Throughout the years, the U.S. government has tried to find ways to overcome poverty.Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), and Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) are just a few examples of how the government has assisted millions of Americans in poverty. However, “government programs come and go”
(agjohnson).
Poverty is “the most farreaching, longstanding cause of chronic
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However, some believe that the government’s help is what keeps people in poverty. “Welfare and other such programs are like doctors who keep giving bleeding patients transfusions without repairing the wound” (agjohnson). So pretty much, the government doesn’t necessarily help with people in poverty because they’re targeting the wrong thing.
Most people in poverty aren’t as educated compared to those who aren’t in poverty.
Education is important, but by itself it is a “necessary insufficient antipoverty tool” (prospect) meaning that education isn’t the only thing that can help people get out of poverty. It can help, but “education is a supplyside policy” (prospect) which means it improves the quality of a worker, but it doesn’t supply them with a job. “Educations is only a partial cure for poverty because of all the other recent changes in the labor market” (prospect), so even with a good education, people in poverty still struggle to find a job.
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Poverty is caused by many different factors, and many have tried to several different ways to solve it, but all have failed so far. Based on the information given, it can be concluded that there’s too many causes of poverty to get rid of poverty. Poverty is an inevitability of