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Poverty
Imagine living on under two dollars. Two dollars a day can get you one cheeseburger and a side of fries at McDonald’s. Two dollars can get you one sandwich at Subway. 2 dollars CANNOT provide the essential nutrients and food a person needs in one day.
Many people don’t know the right meaning of poverty. Poverty is different in every part of the world one goes to. Many people think that the meaning of poverty is just when someone is very poor. It’s true, but it goes into a deeper meaning than just poor. Poverty is when a person cannot provide for themselves or their family.
Absolute poverty is an actual definition of poverty used all over the world. Absolute poverty is when a person can only live on fewer than 2 dollars a day. This means that every day people living in absolute poverty must spend on average only under 2 dollars a day in everything they do. This means food, water and electricity.
Poverty is the cause of 21,000 deaths per day. That is 7,665,000 people a year, many of them being children who do not have the possibility of even acquiring jobs to provide for themselves. Every 4 seconds, a child dies from hunger. That is extremely sad to think about considering that also every 4 seconds, a public school student gets suspended.
Poverty in Africa
There is more poverty in Africa than anywhere else. This is where most people think that poverty happens. Africa is also the stereotypical poverty situation. About 40% of Africa is poverty stricken. This is the worst case of poverty that has been seen in the whole world.
There are many things that cause poverty in Africa. The main reason is that the rich in Africa hog all the money and resources causing a country where there are rich people and poor people, there is ...

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...o have money. These homeless people are usually not government dependent and live using money they get from begging. They live in absolute poverty.
Another type of poverty in America is living on welfare. Welfare collectors get money from the US Government to spend on food and other things necessary for living. These people usually have homes but cannot get jobs, or are unwilling to get jobs because they have many children. This is another type of poverty that is very looked down upon.

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