English homework

Nawaf Aldablan

Matt Franks

English 130

8 November 2016

Causes of Poverty

Background and Reasons of Interest

·      Since I came to United State I saw a lot of homeless in the streets especially when I was living in San Francisco which shacked me because they are living in the top economic country in the world and are very unlikely to escape his bad situation and get wealthy to live normally and healthy.

· Homeless people attract my attention because is not fair to see them sleeping in the streets without help from the people around them.  

Research

·      How to solve the problem in poverty and how to take an advantages from it

If we continue to ignore this problem what will we face of consequences, and when they can achieve their dreams.

·      How much the rich people spend send their money and where and how they can help this problem.     

·   I want to find more articles that shown more causes of poverty to learn how to fix and help this problem, I think google scholar would be a really helpful place to use that information.

· According to Iceland, John “Most demographic groups have felt the effect of the recession, but the impact was by no mean uniform” (122). The recession hit different groups.

· John Iceland said “We see that official poverty rose from 12.3 percent in 2006 to 15.0 percent in 2011, a 22.0 percent increase” (122). The recession increased the number of people in poverty. So, the government must to protect these people who lost their jobs by help them to find new job.  

· According to Iceland, John “Many homeowners also saw the value of their home equity become negative, meaning that they owed more to the bank in loans than their house was worth” (125). The people who took out loans fell further into poverty. The people who did that must to go to the jail and do not leave until the pay all the money, because they become dangerous if life in the streets, and pushing some people the same way they took or they become drug dealer.

· According to Rashmita Mistry” In total, 29 million children (41%) live in families with incomes less than two times the federal poverty level (i.e., $44,100 for a family of four) (705). That mean must to give them more chance to make their life better for instance, offer online jobs for them to make more money or offer them enough time for them loans.

· According to Susan Bray “The percentage of United States citizens living below the federal poverty line increased from 32,907,000 to 46,200,000 between the years from 2001 to 2011. Median income continued to decline in 2011 and was 8.1% lower than median household income in 2007, the year before the current recession (33).

Audience/Benefits

·      I would like to aware the people who are authorized or who have the solution in their hands to make decisions to solve these problems, maybe creating job opportunities or maybe lowering taxes, build shelters or find a solution one way or the other

·      The audience for this topic are people who can help the people in the street by anything they can for instance, give them food, clothes, money, or help them to find the right path for their life.

·      I hope that my audience will know that this is a problem which cannot be ignored or reschedule because it is a threat to many lives of people and even children who still didn’t get the chance to prove what they have of talent and other skills which they can use.

·      I want my audience to take serious action as building free schools and creating educational communities to help these people be educated and fight their way back into life. Maybe make them on a long term so that both sides benefit from the solute.

 

Work cited

“Off the grid.” Nation 302.10(2016):21. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16vOct. 2016.

 

Hess, Robert V. “Helping people off the streets: Real solutions to Urban Homelessness.” USA Today Magazine 128.2656 (2000): 18. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Oct. 2016.

 

Iceland, John. Poverty in America: A Handbook. University of California Press, 2013. Print.

Mistry, Rashmita, et al. Increasing the Complexity of Young Adolescents’ Beliefs About Poverty and Inequality: Results of an 8th Grade Social Studies Curriculum Intervention. Journal of Youth & Adolescence 41 .6(2012): 704-716. Academic Search Premier. Web. 9 Nov. 2016.

Bray, Susan, and Richard S. Balkin. “Master’s-Level Students ’Beliefs Concerning the causes of Poverty, Implicit Racial Attitudes, And Multicultural Competency.” Journal Of Professional Counseling: Practice, Theory & Research 40.2 (2013) : 33_44. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Nov. 2016.