Poverty is getting worse and worse. How shall we end this vicious cycle of poverty?

Answer 1

stressing education as a way out
reducing the incidence of teenage pregnancies
those are just two ways

Answer 2

An estimated 2.4 billion people live with a wage of only two dollars a day or less.

An estimated 1.3 billion people live with a wage of only one dollar a day or less.

At least 4.2 billion people are living in poverty but this estimate may even be larger estimating around 4.8 billion all together. What is known is that over 50% of the world's population is living in poverty and are often in some sort of despair or dilemma that is in relation to poverty.

Poverty is often linked with hunger, war, genocide, disease, corruption, dictatorships, malnutrition, water shortage or drought, and other multiple destructive affects that not only bring about poverty but death.

Does not sound like things are getting better to me but I will agree that countries are improving. The poor will always exist but poverty, which I think is different from being poor, can be lowered but never eradicated.

By the way Socialism will NEVER WORK.

Also you cannot just give people money.

Look at this:

Over the last 5 decades the world has spent over 2.3 trillion dollars on foreign aid. Much of which comes from the U.S. and in the year 2000, approximately, 34 Billion dollars came from private donations from the American people and private organizations alone.

Most went into the hands of the corrupt. What a waste.

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Answer 3

You know, this kind of question really pi$$es me off. If we're talking about poverty in America, there is really no excuse for it. Majority of the "poor" chose to be where they are at! By making poor life choices, they have reaped what they have sown.

I sure as hell wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth, my father worked construction until the day he died, mom never worked outside the home. I didn't start college until my late 40s. I worked each and every day, and sometimes 2 and 3 jobs to get where I'm at today! I had a high school education, worked construction myself after graduating high school. I joined the service when I was 19 and stayed even until today.

Poverty is choice! You screw around in school and flunk out, or drop out, get pregnant as a teen, or get a girl pregnant as a teen, spend your cash on partying, or drugs, etc, etc and you get what you choose.

Today, I have a house on the water that is paid for, a beach house that I'm still making the payments on, 3 vehicles that are fairly new, (the oldest is a 2000), and they are all paid for, put 2 kids thru college, went thru a divorce and paid child support until the kids were out of high school, and now I'm a non-traditional student studying law. How? I didn't waste my money on flashy stuff, sometimes bought second hand furniture, clothes etc, sometimes put the "wanted" stuff back on the shelf for another time and just bought the stuff I "needed", sometimes stayed home on weekend evenings with a good book instead of out every Friday and Saturday nights.

There are numerous programs at colleges and universities that will pay for someone to go to school and get an education, there are all types of jobs that will pay for your training in a field.

So don't hand this crapola about ending poverty. If you are poor, get off your butt and do something about it! I did, and I'm no genius, I've been enlisted in the service all my adult life. I just decided that I wasn't going to struggle all my life and made choice to prevent it.........you can too!

Answer 4

Depends how you see it, yes there are areas in the UK that are poverty stricken but that is sometimes down to the people and how they manage their money or dole money as the case may be. I think that alot of people are greedy and think that they are poor etc but that's normally after they have spent most of the money on drink, fags etc and then have no money left for the kids food or electricity and then plead poverty. Its the people that work and pay huge amount of taxes that are the worst off, huge mortgages while the professional scroungers have got it sussed under what is called New Labour

Answer 5

We've come along way since the good ol' days of the "Great Society". Yet in spite of billons of dollars spent in the “War on Poverty” we still have impoverished people in “The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave”. We should have learned by now that we will never be able to cure poverty by pouring money into it. I believe that we can significantly reduce poverty, however, by promoting self reliance and practicing tough love. Remember the old adage: "Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime".

Answer 6

What is your idea of poverty? Only one 19 inch t.v. instead of a big screen? Only one family car older then 10 years? No cell phone?
What people take for poverty today would be the norm 30 years ago. Maybe the quality of life has been raised so much higher that your level of wealth or poverty is a bit distorted compared to actual fact.
When you are sitting in a pile of mud with flies swarming round you... that i will call poverty .

Answer 7

Get the government to stop taxing the poor and get companies to pay their people what they should be making to live. Stop government support of insurance companies so people can save and have personal emergency funds medical insurance costs more than what some people make and car insurance should not be minatory esspecially when companies do not pay out and are not backed by cash. If you put cash into something you should at least get that value back. Bolster social security and employment security if government keeps outsourcing jobs people have to survive somehow. Make political positions purely volunteer positions that would cut out a lot of waste. Under our current system the poor does not stand a chance.

Answer 8

Most people are not poor on accident. There are many opportunities for one to get a job in this country, or receive higher education to find better employment. There aren't many excuses. If you're a minority there are minority scholarships and affirmative action. If you do not have high income, you can qualify for federal college grants and scholarships. Then, there's also the hard-working way of getting student loans and keeping good grades for scholarship applications. Most people just rather sit around and point blame than to investigate their options.

The only way to completely end the cycle of poverty is to promote personal responsibility and accountability, rather than socialism.

Answer 9

Let's call on Bono of U2. He seems to have all the answers.


Laughing at Build the Wall. So you are saying my Native American ancestors should have allowed the first Europeans who came to our country to starve to death? Or did you forget that part in your history classes?

Answer 10

I think we end the cycle of poverty in America's hidden underclass by tossing aside the idea of a "minimum wage" and replace it with a "living wage" concept. This idea has been tossed around over the last 20 years, yet no one has had the courage to take on the powerful forces who benefit from keeping people poor.

Answer 11

hopefully technology will continue to progress and resources such as food and energy will become readily availible for everyone. Keep your eye out for hydorgen powered vehcles. Getting rid of oil is not the cure all but it is a big step in the right direction.