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Poverty

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why is poverty bad?

a)

People just don’t like it

b)

Limits access to educational and employment opportunities

c)

Makes it harder for people to get money in the workplace

d)

People make less than $20K a year

2.

How many children die each day due to poverty?

a)

18K

b)

19K

c)

100

d)

22K

3.

What are the impacts of poverty?

a)

Standard housing

b)

Hunger and homelessness

c)

Inadequate childcare

d)

Unsafe neighborhoods and resourced schools

4.

Where is poverty most common? (Worldwide)

a)

Sudan

b)

U.S.A

c)

Australia

d)

Equatorial Guinea

5.

What causes poverty?

a)

Living in a poor area

b)

Being fired, divorce, death, etc

c)

Having children, living near a wealthy community

6.

How many types of poverty is there?

a)

3

b)

4

c)

7

d)

12

7.

What is Situational poverty?

a)

A persons lack of living space

b)

A sever situation that causes poverty

c)

Someone is born into it

d)

A persons/family’s income and support is decreased

8.

What is Absolute poverty? (2 answers)

a)

Having no access to anything

b)

The most severe type of poverty

c)

No food or water

d)

Poverty all throughout a state

9.

What is Relative poverty?

a)

Poverty caused by relatives

b)

Poverty related to food

c)

Related to the economic climate

d)

Related to the job type

10.

What is Generational poverty?

a)

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

b)

Poverty caused based on skin color

c)

Passed down to descendants

d)

Poverty will always exist in a specific family

11.

What is Rural poverty?

a)

Poverty spreads form being in a rural area to the rest of the area

b)

No poverty in a states rural area

c)

States don’t contribute to helping rural areas

d)

Poverty in rural areas, small society

12.

What is Urban poverty?

a)

Poverty in industrialized cities

b)

Poverty in industrialized countries

c)

No urban areas that are not affected by poverty

13.

How is the U.S helping prevent poverty?

a)

Family tax credits

b)

Housing assistance

c)

Food drives

d)

Giving out clothes/blankets

14.

Why should we care about poverty?

a)

We don’t

b)

Disease, cancer, pandemic, etc can happen

c)

It can cause economic disasters to happen

d)

It spreads to more than just a city or state