where does poverty exist? what are the statistics?
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Those who live in conditions of poverty lack a wide range of economic and other resources and may be described as "poor" or "impoverished". Some see the term as subjective and comparative, others see it as moral and evaluative, while others consider that it is scientifically established.\n\n__________________________________\n\nMany different factors have been cited to explain why poverty occurs. No single explanation has gained universal acceptance.\n\nGo to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty to fin links to statistics and more information!
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There will always be poverty.   They can not be eliminated.   Some poverty exists because of the poor fortune people had.   But some are because of people not willing to do their best and work themselves up.\n\nThe question may how to reduce the poverty.      We must look at what are the most basic thing that keeps people down.\n1. housing\n2. medical expenses\n3. educations\n4. jobs\n\nIf only we can help/assist people with the needs for affordable help on the four major categories,  many people still stuck at or below poverty line.
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i dont think so. why would you think people in other countries and other cultures are lower than your country? based on what? money? standard of living? average population happiness level? stressfull level and divorce rate? number of criminal and prison? average disposable income? nuclear power? morale? spiritual? EQ? IQ?
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The poor always suffer.\n\nThe following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:\n\n    * Forty-six percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.\n    * Seventy-six percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, 30 years ago, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.\n    * Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.\n    * The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)\n    * Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 30 percent own two or more cars.\n    * Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.\n    * Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.\n    * Seventy-three percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and a third have an automatic dishwasher.
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Official definition of poverty by U.S. census bureau sets the thershoold for a single person household at about $ 10,000 a year (see the entire table here: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/threshld/thresh05.html
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There are many a reasons for poverty a few are:\n\n1.The govt policies plays the major role in the eradication of poverty.\n\n2.In a few coutries even today  people are working under landlords to fulfill the debts made by their great grandfaters.(what ever they earn is taken by the landlords)\nit cuases "Rich to get still richer and poor still poorer".\n\n3.Selfishness of people(there are large families living even if each one donate 2% of their profit/income that will make a large sum should be helpful to uplift poor one's)\n\n4.Alchol...in most of the countries the poor people get the chance the reframe their lives...with what ever a little amount they earn but the addiction to alchol....take away the chance!!\n\n5.Dishonest politicians.....remember the developed coutries and many minority/christian orginizations send millions of dollars ...but they do not reach the right people(poor)...infact these so called politicians transfer the amount to swiss acounts.\n\n6.The hectic life styles and lack of spirituality...Im sure every religion...[ex:in Islam it is called zakat(donating some %age of amount to poor)]....what ever religion...every religion encourages the charity and donations to poor.\n\n7.Others are standard reasons which we have studied in our books like unemployment...population....\n\n:)
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Because poverty and food are not related. Poverty is a term in regards to money, and food is with hunger. The real question is, "why do we have so much hunger in the world when we can produce food?" The answer to that is that not everyone has access to the food that is produced. The USA is one of the biggest producers of food products (corn, wheat, vegetables, etc) but that is all perishable. It takes time to transport them to other countries. So for example, if we wanted to send a bunch of vegetables to the people starving in Somalia, most of the food would go bad by the time it got to them. Also, there are mean people out there who take the food for themselves and do not give it to those most needy.
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Begin with the social structure of India: it has a caste system and mention religion, and then look at the history of poverty in India. move onto Mother Teresa's work in Calcutta, then look at modern poverty and what international help is on offer. Finish with a look at how poverty might be affected in the future: imagine if Bob Geldof manages to "Make Poverty History", what might happen to India without the caste system it has relied upon for so long. \n\nBelow are heaps of links to get you started.\nGood luck!
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There are a lot of things in our society and our way of life that tend to make people who are living in poverty 'invisible.'\n\nPeople of different social strata or income groups tend to live in various pockets because of the varying value of land for their homes (poorer people tend to live in areas where the land is inexpensive, or residences allow for more people living in a smaller space). The poorer an area is, the less likely it is to attract outside investment such as grocery stores or work sites, so there is much less reason for our media to pay attention to the area.\n\nPeople in the middle class tend to live in outer suburbs where land is more expensive but available, services are better provided, and there is more relative safety. If they work in urban areas, they have access largely via the Interstate Highway system, so they avoid contact or even sight of poor and blighted areas.\n\nBecause people who live in poverty tend to have a higher amount of relative depression, they tend to not believe there is anything to be gained through voting, so there is no incentive for our political leaders to pay any attention to them at all.\n\nIn short, our people living in poverty tend to live in pockets and areas that have nothing in them that the rest of society is interested in, so they become invisible. We then tend to believe that there is no real poverty in America. The only poor people we tend to see are the con artists along the highway exits who try to intimidate us into giving them money so they will leave us alone.\n\nWhen Katrina came along, it devastated such a large area that these invisible people were driven out of their homes and were forced to seek outside help. Because they had no cars and no caches of food or supplies, they were herded into camps and holding areas where they suddenly became a story worth reporting on because their misery was now out in the open and on display.\n\nNow that they have been dispersed across the country, of course, they are invisible again, and we can go back to asking our government to reassure us that poverty does not exist ... again.
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6.25 billion people!!!\n\n5.05 billion lives in undeveloped countries.
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Yes, but... what kind of question is that? It depends on your definition of "subsistence level". But OK, one of the most commonly quoted  indicators, based on World Bank statistics, is the number of people who survive on less than two dollars a day. About half of the world's population have to do that - so 50% or your point C.
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Can't speak for all but I see many who continue to have children when they can not afford to feed what they have. Excuses for not getting out there and making a honest living. I believe, and have seen people with nothing rise above. You have to have the will. Put your mind to it and you can do just about anything. Poverty does not always have to be a choice.
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Absolute poverty refers to the ability of the person or family to get the basic necessities of life, such as shelter, food, clean water, clothes, medicine.  It is measured based upon the ability to purchase or otherwise garner these things regardless of the relative wealth in the neighborhood, province, country, or world.  Relative poverty refers to the purchasing power a person or family has relative to the people in the same society.  For example, a family living in a very small but clean house, who must walk or ride a bus to travel, who can get enough food to maintain normal weight and activity, but no more than that, and who can buy decent clothes, but only if they are used, would be considered to be fairly well off in many African countries, but would be living in relative poverty if they resided in San Francisco, or Tokyo.  The idea of relative poverty is politically charged, since it can be used to argue for a change in political and social structure by showing the large disparity in wealth, and using the emotionally loaded word "poverty" to describe people who, in real terms, may live quite well.  If absolute poverty were the scale, than very few people in the Western world could be considered to live in poverty, because almost everyone there has access to safe water, plenty of food, decent clothing, etc.  This measure would undermine an argument for social change, and tend to minimize the effects of great disparities in wealth and power inside the same country. Using absolute poverty as a scale, it would be easy to say "Nobody in France (or any other Western country) lives in poverty, so we don't need to have policies to distribute wealth to the poorer classes".  On the other hand, if one were to use an extreme form of relative poverty, one could easily claim that 10%, 25%, etc of people in France lived in relative poverty, and thus make a strong argument for massive redistribution of wealth.  Which measure you choose would depend on your own political beliefs.  However, measures of absolute poverty are very effective in showing just how immensely wealthy the western world is, in that one of our greatest health problems is that our poorest people are becoming obese.  Relative poverty is useful in showing the amount of disparity in distribution of wealth, which is important in its own right because it can generate incredible social tension.
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Families below poverty level 51,186\n\nIndividuals below poverty level 263,412\n\nThe main website is www.census.gov, the site below is the result website. If you want more data, just type in "san bernardino" in the search box on the right column
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There is so much poverty because not enough people are willing to help others. Just a little from anyone could be so much to the other. \nThe people that pay the most consequences are surely the poor, because they suffer the reminisces of poor judgments from the ones that are responsible of making things better.
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Based on data I could find on World Bank assessments of per capita income by country and US poverty definitions, I would estimate that of the 180+ countries in the world, only the 46 nations defined as  "high income" or "upper middle income" are above the US official poverty level.  Keep in mind that poverty level is defined in part by cost of living, which tends to be lower in less-developed nations.
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the poorest country in the world accordin to UN statistics was Sierra Leone in 2004. It is a tiny west african nation lyin on the atlantic ocean.i believe the ppl live on average  $100 a year. sierra leone is blessed wit some of and if not the best diamonds in the world but is still poor. check out: \n The star of sierra leone diamond on yahoo search