Statistics on poverty in England produced by the Social Metrics Commission show clear signs of an increase in people living under the poverty line since 2010. Though most poverty rates haven't seen di…
Poverty
What does it mean to be in poverty? Such a simple yet controversial question. I can guarantee that a larger percentage of the world goes on with their day not thinking about all those suffering becaus…
Poverty rates worldwide are significantly increasing over the last few years. "The end of 2020 brought the sharpest rise in the U.S poverty rate since 1960's" (Saraiva and Tanzi). Thousands of deaths …
Seniors who live in poverty are not immune to its anger and repercussions. Poverty among the elderly has been the subject of numerous arguments. After spending their entire lives working, the elderly …
Sweatshops are a very easily manipulated system to be used to maximize profit and induce abuse to the people that work in them. More often than not, there are common, and casual, inhumanities found in…
Society is made up of people, groups, institutions, and systems that share common traditions and interests. Society is the context in which we embrace the family cultures, identities, values, ideas an…
Money is something we all want a large quantity of, but must of us will never obtain that. Poverty is something that many people in our country experience at some point. Poverty is not something peopl…
Do you think the government's judgments are fair? Judges and social workers are often the main people taking care of custody cases. Judges are confusing poverty with neglect and that should not be a r…
Margaret Thatcher once said: "Poverty is a personality defect". Though she may have insinuated that people only have themselves to blame for being poor, it may very well be a personality defect for t…
Despite the United States being the wealthiest country on planet Earth with a GDP of over $20 trillion, they still have one of the highest rates of poverty among developed countries. Sarah Smarsh, aut…