Poverty

Why is poverty bad?

• People just don’t like it

• Limits access to educational and employment opportunities

• Makes it harder for people to get money in the workplace

• People make less than $20K a year

How many children die each day due to poverty?

• 18K

• 19K

• 100

• 22K

What are the impacts of poverty?

• Standard housing

• Hunger and homelessness

• Inadequate childcare

• Unsafe neighborhoods and resourced schools

Where is poverty most common? (Worldwide)

• Sudan

• U.S.A

• Australia

• Equatorial Guinea

What causes poverty?

• Living in a poor area

• Being fired, divorce, death, etc

• Having children, living near a wealthy community

How many types of poverty is there?

• 3

• 4

• 7

• 12

What is Situational poverty?

• A persons lack of living space

• A sever situation that causes poverty

• Someone is born into it

• A persons/family’s income and support is decreased

What is Absolute poverty? (2 answers)

• Having no access to anything

• The most severe type of poverty

• No food or water

• Poverty all throughout a state

What is Relative poverty?

• Poverty caused by relatives

• Poverty related to food

• Related to the economic climate

• Related to the job type

What is Generational poverty?

• Someone attained most of the money in the family leaving everyone else without it

• Poverty caused based on skin color

• Passed down to descendants

• Poverty will always exist in a specific family