Relative poverty refers to the degree that some groups lack resources compared to others; absolute poverty refers to a lack of resources that is life threatening.
The U.S. federal government uses federal poverty guidelines to determine eligibility for programs and federal poverty thresholds to calculate numbers of people living in poverty.
Poverty is linked to factors such as race, gender, age, and class, and responses to poverty are connected to social and cultural views about why poverty occurs.
3 populated and with poor living conditions such as lack of access to clean water, inadequate sewerage and sanitation services ( Carter, 2018, pg. 84) .
Both poverty and health are the causes of each other. A poor person will less likely afford medical services and hence will survive on poor health. Additionally, an unhealthy individual lacks the capacity to look for resources and also spend a lot of medical services, a condition that attracts poverty.
Marxists believed that the best way to reduce poverty is by abolishing the dependence culture in the society ( Loibl, 2018, pg. 421) . The approach to achieve this is by reforming the welfare programs and developing the principles for the aptness of government benefits.
According to the study, over 3 billion people live below the poverty line, which makes it challenging to save for future unpredictability and also pay for health services. Poverty leads people to live in pathetic areas where their income would afford them.
As a result, such worries accumulate to cause depression, which in other cases, prompts them to engage in stimulant drugs, which further deteriorates the health of such people.
The circle continues making them prone to poor health since such food may be expensive based on their financial ability. In this theory, individuals' high drive to raise their standards of living is relegated by lack of access to opportunities such as water availability, and other natural resources.
Perhaps he wrote well wishes and a message of gratitude for giving what you can. Most people who pass him don’t know where he’s from, his name, or how he came to be homeless.
Capitalism tends to encourage individual responsibility for actions . We have a penal system that punishes individuals’ actions as if they are divorced from difficult upbringings and environments — separate and isolated incidents. We have enormous financial markets, which encourage individual college students to major in business, computer science, and engineering. We congratulate and honor people for “their” work and individual contributions to science, politics, and bravery. When we seek answers for homelessness, poverty, and even wealth, the scripts have been built for us. As I’m a visual person, I’ve created a pie chart to explain responsibility in capitalism.
In this first chart, capitalist ideals suggest that individuals bear the responsibility. Pretty simple, right? When I was younger, I enjoyed the efficiency of more libertarian — individual responsibility — principles. If you work harder, you’re rewarded. The world is yours, if you earn it.
Perhaps the reality is that he was born to a single-parent household in a disenfranchised neighborhood. Perhaps he was a Vietnam War veteran who suffered from the losses of fellow soldiers and improperly/untreated posttraumatic stress disorder. Or, perhaps we are all incredibly complex, diverse beings.
As humans, we tend to fill in the blanks. Unless you’re chauffeured from a gated community to a private jet, and refuse to look out the window in daily travels, it’s nearly impossible to miss these questions of responsibility. We tend to explain the inexplicable with simplifications. People deserve what they deserve.