What are the real numbers regarding households in poverty in the United States and what is the best way to help those people and families out of poverty so they can stay out? Should creating good paying job while upgrading our infrastructure be part of the plan to reduce poverty? 7. After I have wrestled with the ideas in these two texts, what are my current views on this issue.
In the years from 1945 – 2000, Canada developed and changed as a nation. These changes had both positive and negative effects and many have subject to controversy throughout Canada. With global crises at hand, such as the Cold War, Canada found itself involved in international affairs in a way it had never been before. The role Canada had to take in the international community greatly developed Canada’s international role. Throughout this, Canada found itself heavily influenced by the US and struggled to keeps its autonomy from American influences and maintain friendly relations with the United States.
American society’s inability to reduce rampant levels of poverty is a stain that becomes more apparent with each passing day. The ever-growing wealth gap and the concerning projections regarding a future conflict between the unskilled labor force and the robotic labor force, demand the implementation of an effective and efficient social security system, such as a universal basic wage. In fact, it is morally obligatory that one support a solution to the wage gap, high levels of poverty and future labor fears which includes the concept of an universal basic income. A universal basic income is a system which entails a regular dividend be provided by the government unconditionally to each individual resident or citizen of the aforementioned government’s
Australia has experienced a steady growth in economy during past twenty years. As a consequence of the rapid growth in economy, both labour and capital earnings rose and benefited to all households (Greenville, Pobke, & Rogers, 2013). Furthermore, among OECD countries, Australia achieved the second highest position in average income increase from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s (Fletcher & Guttmann, 2013; Greenville et al., 2013). Although the economy is shown a stable growth, income inequality is flouring across Australian states due to fundamental changes like privatisation, internationalisation of financial sector and so on (Johnson, Manning, & Hellwig, 1998).
The bridge to prosperity: The Canadian welfare state. Through the years, Canada’s security and prosperity it’s one of the most important topics between its citizens. Introduced in the Second World War, the “welfare state” aims to give an equality service, a minimum income, protection for the elders, unemployment and disabilities as in sickness. For some, the decisions made were debatable given the tough times: pogey, the Medicare program and the Canadian Pension Plan (CCP) represents an ideal standard of living an economically healthy life moreover its one of the most important values the Canadian society is built on.
Canadians take pride in their health care system; however, most Canadians are unaware of the disparities that exist for transgender persons within health care. Being ridiculed, denied care, or treated unjustly because of a self-identification as transgender goes against the core values of the nursing profession (Canadian Nurses Association, 2009); despite this, ten percent of transgender participants in the Ontario Trans PULSE survey reported that they had experienced these demonstrations of prejudice when accessing emergency room services. This statistic may be lower than the reality due to transgender persons frequently avoiding the health care system (Bauer & Scheim, 2015). According to the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) Code of Ethics (2009) nursing staff are expected to provide, “safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care” (p. 3); however, due to lack of policies and lack of education nursing staff and physicians are detrimentally adding to the stressors of transgender life.
Poverty is a huge problem around the world. So in this speech there will be some reasons why the government should get involved and why they shouldn’t. Absolute or extreme poverty is when people lack the basic necessities of survival this means they can’t afford food, clothing, housing. Clean water, or basic medicines to help them stay healthy most of the time. According
She surrounds her concerns around the lake of social services and the higher probability of individuals staying in poverty for more than 4 years (Megan 2013 line 19 and 34). However, in the article “Income Equality Not a Problem in Canada” by Jock Finlayson in the Vancouver Sun (Jock 2014), shares his view of how young Canadian born citizens are better off than the American. He states that Canadian youth are more likely to complete post secondary education and move to a higher income classes (Jock 2014 line 55). His perspective provides a conflicting ideology to Megan’s article on how the child poverty poses significant threat to society.
Canada is one of the countries with the most significant economic and human development in the world. Their rules of living are among the highest in the world, and it is not uncommon to find some of their cities among the reviews that mark them as the best on the planet to live in. But that 's only part of the reality. One of the social reasons that contribute to poverty in Canada is that people who are considered poor, do not have jobs with minimum wages or whose jobs are not fixed or stable (4 out of 10 poor), who are unable to work because of health, disability or being cared for by young children (5 out of 10 poor) and who are unable to find employment (1 out of 10 poor, either because of lack of training, experience or because in their
Social Welfare Policy and Child Protection – Strength and Limitations Since last two decades Canada being experienced softer and harder forms of neo-liberal economic impetus (McKeen, 2006). Many of these reforms targeted social benefits and divided marginalized people into deserved and undeserved category (McKeen, 2006). At a large level, social policies are shaped by the exploration of dominant ideas about a social issue. Existing political views and the interest of the dominant policy community are predominantly influencing policy making (McKeen, 2006). The mainstream discourses for solutions of social problems and policy outcomes are increasingly underrepresented and narrow down the focus of social welfare in Canada (McKeen, 2006).
“In recent years we have spent more and more money on more and more poverty reduction programs, but seen few, if any, additional gains”, states Michael Tanner (2015) in his policy analysis on guaranteed national income. The guaranteed minimum revenue is defined as an unconditional cash grant paid out to every citizen or resident of a country without means test or work requirement. It is more commonly known as universal basic income (UBI). Since current welfare systems have failed to show progress on the poverty front, the concept of UBI has gained popularity among the entirety of the political spectrum. The motives for replacing the current welfare system with this alternative concept are evident: theoretically, it represents the ideal way
The Social Epidemic of Inequality in Canada: Gender Inequality Through the years, social stratification of Canada has progressed and altered by cultural changes and social changes in society (Cummings et al. 2017). In the early 1900s, the acknowledgment of women as persons was established by the women’s suffrage movement (Strong-Boag 2016). This movement cultivated a pathway of equity for women since society was patriarchic at the time, but today gender inequality still impacts the lives of women including those of various ethnic backgrounds (Strong Boag 2016; Cummings et al. 2017). Even more, the recognition of people of different gender identities has resulted in mass awareness with the rise of LGBTQ activism (Nazish 2018). Today, contemporary culture is heavily influenced by agents of socialization such as family, religion, education and the government that impose gender stereotypes and social constructs (Cummings et al. 2017).
According to Encyclopedia Americana (1989) poverty can be viewed from two different perspectives and these two points of view are: (i) “ moneylessness” which means both an insufficiency of cash and serious inadequacy of resources of all kinds to satisfy and meet basic human needs, such as, nutrition, rest, and body maintenance; and (ii) “powerlessness” meaning those that lack the chances and choices open to them and whose lives seem to them to be governed by forces and persons outside their control. From this, it is seen that poverty has various manifestations which include among others: lack of income and productive resources enough to make sure sustainable livelihood, hunger and malnutrition, limited or lack of access to education, ill health, and other basic services, increased morbidity and mortality from illness, homelessness and inadequate, unsafe and degraded environment and social discrimination and exclusion LITERATURE REVIEW Vital to the clamour for policies and programmes that will reduce poverty is the issue of the conceptualization of poverty. Conceptually, there three dominant views that will be identified as the meaning of poverty in this paper. Aliyu, (2002) has specifically identified the first view that views poverty as a chronic deprivation of some basic human needs at the individual or household level.
1. Introduction Income inequality has grown significantly during this past decades and this phenomenon continues to increase over the years. This problem is constantly discussed in the daily news all around the world. Several consequences of this increase of inequality between people leads to economic problems such as high unemployment rates, lack of work for young people, fall of demand for certain product. The gap between rich and poor is increasing, the rich are richer and the poor are poorer as a result politicians and economists try to adopt certain policies in order to reduce this gap.
Inefficient policies all around the world and especially in our country are contributing to problems in the society. And the biggest problem which the world faces today is the problem of “Poverty” and “Inequality”. It is hard for one to determine whether poverty causes inequality or is it the other way around because both these problems are interrelated. Poverty is something which is caused due to transferring wealth in to the hands of a specific group and the unjust policies of the government. And inequality is discriminating a person in all spheres of life which gives a rise to sense of deprivation.
