Causes Of Poverty In The United States
In the United States over 1.2 million students drop out of high school (US Census Bureau).That’s about a student every 26 seconds/7,000 a day. About 6,000 people that don't get to graduate end up obtaining a minimum wage job for the rest of their life. They struggle, and many Americans question why the number one industrialized country suffers an extremely high percentage of poverty and what triggers it? People know that not graduating from high school is the number one factor that causes poverty in the United States, but what they don't know the reasons why they don’t get to graduate high school. When this happens usually leads to crime increase. Poverty makes people do desperate things to survive and to survive in the American system(capitalism)
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Why is this? Since poor neighborhoods lack on schools materials and not enough funds to offered children a better education, the poor teenagers tend to drop out of school.For the richest country in the world is also the world's highest childhood poverty .Which we can connect to does who are poor and don't have enough knowledge in how to get their kids to college which is one of the easiest way out of poverty.But the rich they have an advantage since they already know the procedure to get their kids to college and obtaining a job that will keep them away from staying in the lower class. The currently official poverty in the US is 14.5% meaning 45.3 million people live in poverty(statistics).Which has been 2% less the then previous year. According to Ashley Carter, more than 20 percent in the U.S. are currently poor .”That's about 1 in 5 kids”. “Poverty is possibly the single greatest threat to a child's well being.According to the Urban Institute, children who are poor for half of their childhood are 32 times more likely to remain poor”(W M …show more content…
“That disparity is reminiscent of Ferguson Missouri, which was thrust into the national spotlight this summer when a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teen”(Missouri Newspapers). Crime increment has been the effect that poverty has caused. Police are the big influence towards the criminal injustices their is towards the minorities.People in from Wilmington are asked why such violence they answer poverty, racism, lack of economic opportunities, drugs and alcohol consumption, gun violence, high dropout rates, teen pregnancy and etc… Studies of crime, Deviance(behavior), and social disorganization, and the impact of social conditions and policy decisions upon their scope, have been hampered and widespread suspicious of the validity of official measures of crime. Crime statistics, the most notable and accessible of which are those contained in the (Federal Bureau) of Investigations yearly Uniform Crime Report, are reputedly invalid indicators even of the limited actions which they purport to measure directly(Wesley G. Skogan Northwestern University). Studies have shown that all the factors mentioned above are the main reasons why violence have
Why is this? Since poor neighborhoods lack on schools materials and not enough funds to offered children a better education, the poor teenagers tend to drop out of school.For the richest country in the world is also the world's highest childhood poverty .Which we can connect to does who are poor and don't have enough knowledge in how to get their kids to college which is one of the easiest way out of poverty.But the rich they have an advantage since they already know the procedure to get their kids to college and obtaining a job that will keep them away from staying in the lower class. The currently official poverty in the US is 14.5% meaning 45.3 million people live in poverty(statistics).Which has been 2% less the then previous year. According to Ashley Carter, more than 20 percent in the U.S. are currently poor .”That's about 1 in 5 kids”. “Poverty is possibly the single greatest threat to a child's well being.According to the Urban Institute, children who are poor for half of their childhood are 32 times more likely to remain poor”(W M …show more content…
“That disparity is reminiscent of Ferguson Missouri, which was thrust into the national spotlight this summer when a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teen”(Missouri Newspapers). Crime increment has been the effect that poverty has caused. Police are the big influence towards the criminal injustices their is towards the minorities.People in from Wilmington are asked why such violence they answer poverty, racism, lack of economic opportunities, drugs and alcohol consumption, gun violence, high dropout rates, teen pregnancy and etc… Studies of crime, Deviance(behavior), and social disorganization, and the impact of social conditions and policy decisions upon their scope, have been hampered and widespread suspicious of the validity of official measures of crime. Crime statistics, the most notable and accessible of which are those contained in the (Federal Bureau) of Investigations yearly Uniform Crime Report, are reputedly invalid indicators even of the limited actions which they purport to measure directly(Wesley G. Skogan Northwestern University). Studies have shown that all the factors mentioned above are the main reasons why violence have