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    Everyone knows what the word poverty means. It means poor, unable to buy the necessities to survive in today's world. We do not realize how easy it is for a person to fall into poverty: A lost job, a sudden illness, a death in the family or the endless cycle of being born into poverty and not knowing how to overcome it. There are so many children in poverty and a family's structure can effect the outcome. Most of the people who are at the poverty level need some type of help to overcome the

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    Happiness” for everyone in America. The “American Dream” is not the same from one person to another. Some people wants to freedom, some people wants money, some people wants fame, and some people want a lot of different things. Whatever that dream is, not everyone have the same chance and opportunity at pursuing it because of poverty. Poverty comes from inequality in an abundance wealth and education absence. If not impossible, it is tremendously tough for those in poverty to be at the level of others

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    my project was poverty in America. For the project I researched many different topics to find the one that I connected with enough to write about and come up with an inquiry. I found the topic of poverty in America interesting and it was something that I could relate to in certain ways. At first I wanted to expand on this topic and incorporate world poverty but that was to general. Also there was too much information and differing ideas on my question when applying it to world poverty. Thus, I decided

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    the history of America. The effects of this have always been negative on the minority people. They are facing problems that they should not be facing like other Americans. Poverty When it comes to the topic of poverty, most of us will readily agree that race plays a role in poverty. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of who will step forward to end racism in America. Whereas some are convinced that it will never come to an end, others maintain that poverty can be diminished

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    More than 3 billion people are living in poverty across the world, among those an estimated 43.1 million people in America are living in poverty. There are many causes of poverty, but mass incarceration is one of the most prominent ones. When people get out of prison or jail, they have a very low chance of getting a job and finding a home because they have the label of being a criminal. People tend to explain poverty especially poverty in America is that people are lazy and do not want to work, but

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    Socialization of Poverty Imagine America different from what we know. A different yet real America, which existed in the past, an American governed by hate and cruelty, fully equipped with racial segregation policies. Imagine parents, struggling for their children 's education but being denied access because of the color of their skin. Imagine constant disapproval, crime, and suspicions towards someone because of their status, or something beyond their control. Today, we find America changed, healing

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    Deep Poverty In America

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    In America Mississippi has the highest poverty rate in America. Compared to Hawaii, Maryland, and Massachusetts which have a lower percentage of low income residents. Wealthier states have super high percentage rates of low income residents in deep povert.In 2013 the federal poverty line for a family of 4 was $23,550 while deep poverty was living on less than $12,000 per year. The bigger problem is that rich states in deep poverty have reduced their overall poverty rates. In 2013 20.6% of Americans

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    Poverty, as defined at www.dictionary.com, is the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. What poverty is taken to mean depends on who asks the question, how it is understood, and who responds to it. It’s about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. The United States is considered the richest country in the world, and yet there are millions of its residents living in poverty. The way the government

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    living in poverty have to endure. In America there are also many children attempting to defeat the many disadvantages of being poor. Both countries are going through times of economic instability and children in both nations have been forced to live a life of financial difficulty and hardship. Liberia and the United States have many similarities and differences regarding the major problem of child poverty. First, the reason for both countries’ huge number of children living in poverty has similarities

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    People who are poor in america are the people who do not make more than a certain range of income. Genearally people and society belive that people in poverty consist of a majority of minorities like african americans and hispanics. Most people think people in poverty mainly participate or are affiliated with things such as being in gangs and doing drugs but that is not always true. Most people in poverty did not think about their futures and messed up their education which resulted in the inability

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