WorksheetsPoverty
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
What is Rural poverty?
Poverty spreads form being in a rural area to the rest of the area
No poverty in a states rural area
States don’t contribute to helping rural areas
Poverty in rural areas, small society
What is Urban poverty?
Poverty in industrialized cities
Poverty in industrialized countries
No urban areas that are not affected by poverty
How is the U.S helping prevent poverty?
Family tax credits
Housing assistance
Food drives
Giving out clothes/blankets
Why should we care about poverty?
We don’t
Disease, cancer, pandemic, etc can happen
It can cause economic disasters to happen
It spreads to more than just a city or state
