Characteristics Of Intergenerational Poverty

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No one wants to be poor. We do not want to live in a humble house and worry about our daily necessities. However, we were determined to be rich or poor since we were born. Many people work hard to overcome poverty, but it is not easy. That’s why intergenerational poverty is a common issue around the world. Upward mobility means raising from a lower social class to a higher social class. The reasons of small upward mobility —rising from lower class to middle class— are the government’s tax preference and spending are favoring the wealth, managers earning much more than workers and the mainstream culture rarely covers the life of working class. There are generally three classes in the society: upper class, middle class and lower class. The working class usually refers to lower class. These social classes are generally divided according to people’s wages and educational level. It is a normal phenomenon that social classes exist in the society. However, the wealth gap between the rich and poor is getting wider in America. According to Dee Dee Myers’ ‘What class warfare really looks like’, “The top 1 percent …show more content…

In ‘Hidden Rules Among Classes’, the author, Ruby K. Payne, summarized the characteristics of poverty, middle class and wealth. She thought that money in poverty is an expression of personality and is used for entertainment and relationships. Their motivations are survival, relationships and entertainment. They care much on present and make decisions based on feelings or survival. However, it is dogmatic to say that all people who are living under poverty line do not know how to spend their money correctly and love entertainment. Many poor people have low income because they are not highly educated, thus, cannot work in a higher position. Even they know how to manage their money, they cannot overcome poverty because of their limited

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