What does the phrase ''vicious circle of poverty mean''?

Answer 1

Means if your parents are poor that diminshes your oppurtunities and more than likely you will be poor. I t can be broken but the odds are against you at birth they diminish further if you grow up in a single parent home, in a high crime area, poor education system, and so on.

Answer 2

It means that once someone is caught in this 'cycle', it is difficult to get out of it. Hence, the poor will become poorer and become discriminated in the society, due to their poor living conditions.

Poor family leads to the inability to provide a good education, basic amenities and hence the children grow up not having basic education and have poor welfare. Without the necessary skills and education,this in turn will lead to the difficulty in getting a job or worse, lead to unemployment. They are also more likely to turn to vices and crimes like getting into drugs and stealing, to make ends meet. Hence, the cycle continues if he/she does not take steps to better his/her standard of living. When this occurs, many generations of the same family can get implicated.

Hence, this explains why the cycle of poverty is seen as "vicious".

Answer 3

It's not being able to get out of poverty and having children who can't get out of poverty. Grandma has a baby when she was 16. She had to drop out of school and the father of the baby took off. So she had no choice but to go on welfare. She can't go to college because she has a baby to raise and all of her money goes to an apartment and utilities she can hardly afford. Her daughter gets older, hasn't had any role models of success, and falls into the same lifestyle. She's making minimum wage, needs to work to survive so can't get education to get a better job...so it's a circle.

Answer 4

I would say it means that someone who comes from a poor background has less opportunities for education which in turn leads to fewer opportunities to improve their standard of living. And that cycle can follow from generation to generation until someone has the motivation to rise above their circumstances regardless of the barriers.

And it goes the other way. People who come from wealthy background have an advantage that makes it more likely they will be wealthy themselves.

Answer 5

Its a plane curve everywhere equidistant from a given fixed point with a bad attitude whose offspring follow the same cycle, going round and round never getting anywhere, making lots of little circles in the same plane of existence, ad nauseum.

Answer 6

Meaning that some people in our society because of their environment /money situation continue a circle of poverty that might relapse in their offspring and so on and so on.

Answer 7

It means that children born into poverty have a difficult, and in most cases impossible time breaking out.
Poverty means less access to education, less health care, poorer nutrition, more violence in the neighborhood, closer vicinity to crime, closer vicinity to illicit drugs, less access to transportation and fewer role moles.

Answer 8

it means it's so hard to get out of poverty because you just go in circles... no way up to get out of it.

Answer 9

Poverty that pass on from generation to generation. It is incurable.
Inheritance.

Answer 10

Our economic system NEEDS a poor class. the people in power don't want to give up that power. In deliberate and non-deliberate ways, our society is set up to keep poor people poor, and to keep the children of poor people poor as well.