2007-12-29 22:11:56 · 12 answers · asked by kill_yr_television 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Transportation whether it would be public or private is one of the single-most contributing factor related to poverty in America today. When a job is further away from ones home and they have no transportation to get to and from work, that job would be nearly impossible to maintain. Public transportation in small communities is one aspect that can often be unavailable. In order to get out of public assistance one must hold full-time employment. Transportation is the main factor in getting and keeping oneself employed.
2007-12-29 22:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by Mary W 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think so, Absolutely!
Buying a car these days can break your bank account and what else could be considered poverty anyway because if you can't afford a car, you can't get to work properly, thereby using public transportation that is not reliable now.
Just imagine if you could take public transportation all over the place, you'd save money like crazy.
But, you do know, that public transportation was never meant to go over big in our auto-driven economy.
Tell ya a what too, if there was good public transportion available with reliable times and close by linkups, safe surroundings and such, I'd never own a car.
2007-12-30 11:27:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I could go on for volumes about this, but I'll narrow it down to three.
First, well paying jobs are not easy to find. Most jobs that pay well enough require degrees that not everyone has had the opportunity to attain. Lower paying positions, don't pay enough to feed your family, and so the cycle spirals further.
Second, inflated prices on the necessities of life have spiraled out of control. Gas, electric, water, food...all have gone up in recent years. It's almost becoming necessary to take out a second mortgage to heat your home in the winter.
Third, companies are starting to outsource some of their tasks to third parties outside the USA, pulling jobs away from Americans, and giving them to people in India, Mexico, and other nations. It is simply becoming too expensive to employ Americans. Why pay a worker seven dollars an hour, when you can pay someone else four dollars an hour with no benefits? It's a bottom line, they're looking to protect, and they're doing whatever they can to do so.
Welfare is not easy to attain, nor is it easy to stay on. There are rigid criteria that need to be met before a person can get on welfare or even get help for food. The system is in place to help people that need it.
2007-12-29 22:31:38 · answer #3 · answered by erin A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live 16 miles from my job. I am paid fairly well, but until the last decade, my city did not have decent public transit. Now it does, and the economy here has been booming since then. I can't move closer to my job, and many other people can't either, because that end of town is ALL restricted neighborhoods. People like me are not allowed to live in restricted neighborhoods. Businesses won't risk locating in poor neighborhoods, so those poor who want to work must travel further to those jobs than those who can afford to live closer to upscale neighborhoods. In economics, there is a theory to explain this phenomenon. In real life, it is called bigotry.
2007-12-30 02:58:25 · answer #4 · answered by correrafan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
for my area, earnings disparity is the best factor that keeps people in poverty. until eventually the tip of the Nineteen Seventies, the proportion of people residing decrease than the poverty point continuously declined as actual earnings enhance bigger flippantly for all instructions. because of the fact the Eighteen Eighties, earnings enhance bigger disproportionately with the wealthy getting the lions proportion and poorest 20% earning definitely declined with the help of roughly 10% in actual words inflicting greater people to slide decrease than the poverty point. at present the medium kin earnings for a kinfolk of four for the poorest 20% of people is decrease than $15,000 in line with 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. With an earnings so low, this forces those families to stay in intense crime, violent, and poor tutorial device factors leaving little probability to enhance out of that classification. regrettably that's no longer the baby's fault that he became raised in such poverty however the end results of the poverty makes his destiny bleak. All of Europe and the U. S. are capitalist economies (a hundred% privately owned business company sectors) and is the suitable device. yet there are adjustments in the capitalist device that help the poor to attain a greater physically powerful commonplace of residing. at present the U. S. has fallen at the back of lots of the others leaving a greater physically powerful share of the inhabitants at the back of in perpetual poverty and the dissolution of the yankee dream for many.
2016-10-02 21:18:36 · answer #5 · answered by vignola 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I beleive it is, the auto industry, and rubber companies bought up the majority of public transportation and dismanteled them so that americans would have to buy cars. This is a fact, GM,Ford, and Chrysler, also Goodyear Tire. Check the history books, you will find this to be true. Aslo they bought up alot of the railroads that provided transprtation for people. America needs to get on the ball and get rail service back up and running, as well as buses,and subways.
2007-12-30 00:13:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Apparently you live in a city and you assume that public transportation is feasible through out the country you really need to get out more and travel the country> You will see places where it is miles from the nearest house or in my case 10 miles from the nearest small grocery 30 from a walmart It certainly is not cost effective to provide public transportation in these areas. it is not the responsibility of the government to provide you transportation to and from work nor to even provide you with a home, job, car, Health care, Utilities, etc. it is our own responsibility to provide these things. When you depend on the government for these things you must sacrifice your own personal freedoms in exchange for entitlements. I for one will not see out my freedoms for anything.
2007-12-29 22:28:46 · answer #7 · answered by littletwin2000 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Welfare doesn't help as so many people are working the system, but you wouldn't want to live the way they do and where they have to live unless your trash to start with you would want off welfare as soon as possible. People go where the work is and the trick is to live as close to your work as possible, it only makes sense!
2007-12-29 22:18:14 · answer #8 · answered by trailertrashsucks 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"NO"
Astor.. the only man to amass three different fortunes... did so without public transportation or public education.
His first fortune was made in fur trading.
His second fortune was make in selling gold mining supplies.
His third fortune was made in real estate.
Many of today's most wealthy individuals dropped out of school to pursue their dreams.
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Your mind takes you in the direction of your dominant thoughts!
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2007-12-29 23:09:27 · answer #9 · answered by . 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, not at all. The contributing factor to poverty is the ease of getting on welfare and staying there.
2007-12-29 22:14:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋