Poverty...

How to help people escape poverty?

I believe the best way to escape poverty would be by education. Unfortunately, education is inaccessible for too many. The best way to counter poverty would then be to make education more available for everyone and mostly for the low income families. Something the government should do is giving rebates to students who come from low income families and who would normally not study after high school because it’s too expensive. One more thing people should focus more on is encouragement. For too many having a good education is not a priority because nobody has ever pushed them and helped them during their studies. People need to have education as a goal in life in order not live in poverty. For example, the Asian people have extremely high expectations for their children and they need to succeed in school. In general, Asian people succeed more than North American students. There needs to be a balance between fun and education and teenagers need to be stimulated by parents, friends and teachers. People need to see learning as something fun and not something they have to do to become rich.

What are the effects of poverty?

Poverty can lead to many mental and self-esteem problems. For example if everyone around someone has better thing that that person, this is going to make that person feel not as good as everyone else. There is pressure on everyone to always have more and more but to have more people need more money but to have more money people have to work more. In the end people are not happier because they don’t have enough fun in life. For someone living in absolute poverty, their whole life is different. The first thing a human needs is its basic needs fulfilled. It is after those needs are fulfilled that someone can have a good quality of life.

What creates poverty?

Poverty is when someone lacks a certain amount of money or possessions. In other words, it is the comparison between everyone in the society and you. For example, someone who earns less than 14400 $ per year in Quebec is considered poor because it is less than the low income cut –off (LICO). This means that people earning less than 14400$ per year in Quebec are the ones who earn the least in the society. For a country where people are less fortunate, 14400$ would be a lot of money because the low income cut-off (LICO) is much lower. Someone who is considered to be in the middle class in Quebec could also be considered poor if you compare that person to a rich neighborhood in Los Angeles. Someone who is poor is someone who has less than the average person around them.

Absolute poverty is when a person can’t fulfill it’s basic needs as a human being. The human basic needs are access to clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter. It is estimated that about 1,7 billion humans are living every day in absolute poverty.

There are many reasons for poverty. In under developed countries, the average person is poor. One problem they have is that they have too many children. In the developed countries, people usually have less children. The consequence is that the wealth is not shared between as many people. Not long ago, parents in Quebec had a lot more children than today. Families who would have lived well if like families today, they would have had only two or three children lived poorly because of the size of their families. It is in the poorest countries that people have the most children. This is not helping them to get wealthier. Another problem is access to a good education. For too many, education is something inaccessible. In wealthier countries it is too expensive and in under developed, education is too expansive and inaccessible to most of the population. The best way to escape poverty is by getting a good education. Unfortunately, too many people can’t afford to go to school. One problem our society has is the amount of teenager who doesn’t get a superior education. During their education children and teenagers need to be encouraged and stimulated to get higher studies. There needs to be a greater social awareness of what happens when you don’t study and work hard to get a good job. Success needs to be a more important for people who don’t want to live under the low income cut-off.