Poverty #9

  Though the United States struggles with poverty; if you travel to India, the poverty is much worst. Like the real circumstances that exist in "slumdog Millionaire" In India you see people who literally have not a dime to their name. They literally have no food to eat. A bit different than America even though the welfare system is not very good here, we don't actually have mass starvation. So poverty in America is relative.Even though we don't have starvation, we do have an amount of poverty that leads to malnutrition, that leads to a series of diseases that we don't tend to associate with First World countries.

   
Some possible causes. I would say the rampant inequality. The bottom 20 percent of the workforce has seen a real income decline by double-digit amounts since the Nixon years. The 1 percent at the top, or the 0.1 %. What it means is political access is concentrated at the top, and as soon as that happens you end up with a political class that doesn't respond to the needs of ordinary people. The biggest problem is that everybody who is poor is overlooked because everybody who is poor in America is reduced to a set of stereotypes. A stereotype many people seem to stray away from as it contains such a negative connotation. 

   
 America is the wealthiest nation in the world, yet it has higher levels of poverty than any other western democracy. Its poverty rates compare more with a country like Romania than with countries like Canada, France or Germany. It doesn't have to be that way. There is a major problem in our country that is like no other. We have a problem that is a bit more manageable than some third world countries. We have the resources, but why do we let people continue to struggle? I could not find an answer. I believe politicians should make this more of an initiative than ever before. I haven't seen much of a push in a while. We need someone who will take a string stance on such an important issue. Though many presidents make an effort problems continue to exist. Something "New" needs to be done and it's not happening now with our current lame duck president who is currently preoccupied  with many other issues.