Why have most people forgotton about the cause Make Poverty History?
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this is related to the above answer. \n\nof corse it aint in the news know if it were it would have to be in the news EVERY day because wether people like it or not poverty happens every day. and "they" have done alot "they" help people every day its just some people chose not to help or egnor people that try to tell them about it. sorry but i had to say it cos its true.
814393
the ones that don't recognize it are far more in need...as they will continue to effect everyone around them, and even themselves in a usually negative fashion...and they usually refuse to get help and won't get help...until it is too late...at least a person who is aware of it,...will try to do something about it to change it imo
241620
Poverty means going without the essentials.  Some people don't have food, clothing, indoor plumbing, running water, heat, reliable transportation, etc.
988718
Ignorance does not make a person poor.  What makes a person poor is lack of education.  Even more important, is ambition.  If you lack ambition, and goals, then you will go nowhere.  I have met people who came from rich backgrounds, and went nowhere, and I have met people who started out with nothing, and built successful companies, and have provided themselves with a good living.  It is all in how you live your life, attain your goals.  If you have a dream, a desire, and some ambition, then you will get where you are going.  It doesn't matter what rung of the economic ladder you start out on.  The SBA has many grant programs to help those who don't necessarily have the means to start their own business.  There are many paths to success, both personal, financial, and spiritual.  Stick to your dreams, never change who you are, and don't compormise.  Success is for everyone's taking.... you have to want to take it.......
332019
There are not thousands of poor, illiterate children in India. There are millions. India is a huge country full of poverty and injustice. There is no way to super-quick fix that place up. Just so you know, they are agricultrually self-sufficient. This means that India grows enough food so that everyone there can get enough to eat. The problem is that it gets held in these store houses and never gets to the people that are starving. The best way to help India is to invest money in companies that are working at building up its infrastructure. That's my opinion, anyway. If you give money to its government, that is really bad, because most people over there in government are really corrupt. If you want, do a little research on the socio-economic history of India. I learned a lot and am really excited about it.
225637
So far the government has been a failure in response to poverty. Social programs don't work as they allow for to many people to cheat. How ever the Clinton approach was closest to the best in my opinion, he helped to create an environment where everybody that wanted to work could get a job. His welfare to work program, raising taxes on the very rich and reinvesting it in the poor without giving it to them might be something that needs to be looked into closer. Education is an influence on poverty. Everybody needs to be something whether it is a taxi driver or a doctor everybody has potential for something.
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Probably becuase poverty is always a relative concept. Being the richer nations they probably still see Africa as the "Dark Continent" back from their sea-faring days.\n\nThat said...\n\nMost other countries probably have more than their share of poverty in their own country to be worried about poverty in another country.
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Because more poverty is caused by governments than solved by governments.\n\nIn the US, Johnson started the War on Poverty. 40 years and trillions of dollars later, we have more poverty than we started with. Government is not the answer.\n\nThe problem is that giving poor people money does not solve poverty. It creates dependency. If you look at some of the very depressed inner cities in America, you are looking at what happens when you pay people not to work, and you pay women to have illegitimate children.\n\nWhatever you subsidize, you get more of.\nWhatever you tax, you get less of.\n\n10 years ago, when Clinton finally signed the Republican welfare reform bill, throwing lots of people off welfare, they just got up and went to work. Amazing how that works, no?
416759
It becomes an issue of public priority. There is an underlying American opinion that your supposed to be able to make it on your own if you work hard enough (even though this is some times a very silly theory in praxis). So theres a general discontent for things which some people see as freerider type things. You could argue there is probably a lack of empathy as many people favor as little government as possible by cutting social safety net programs for the poor. When people keep blaming the victim, these type of injustices occur. Not to mention there are quite a few government expenses that are on the board right now, so people who see us in a defecit think, well now certainly isnt the time to help these people out. It is certainly frusterating and sad but its a part of the american psyche and probably wont change any time soon.
537131
The reason was that Margret Thatcher starved them into poverty for 10 years. The U.K. had 30% unemployment nation wide for years with her.
581289
Wow, this is such a great question! Really.  For me, the way to reduce poverty in the US (and anywhere in the world) is to GET PEOPLE EDUCATED.  Poverty is such a complex issue and it is a difficult challenge to address, but if you get people educated, the quality of lives around the world will change.  I mean, by getting people educated, you help them get to schools, get good jobs, take better care of themselves, prevent disease, etc.  It's so cool, really.\n\nThere are statistics that support how education can help reduce poverty.  I think some of them can be found on www.campaignforeducationusa.org --  Maybe when writing your paper, you can present the case for education being a good way to fight poverty, and then support that by showing all the ways that educating someone can actually help him/her improve the quality of his/her life.  Good luck.
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There are many issues causing poverty - there is inequality, human rights issues, lack of education, lack of access to information, unfair trade practices ... so reducing poverty in this millenium is a difficult although attainable goal.  There's also talk of the Milllenium Development Goals which multialteral development insitutions are inviting all governments and NGOs to help in achieving. I hope this will help you attend that lecture better.
645014
Poverty is the cause of many but not all problems.\n\nMost poverty is caused by injustice which is even a larger issue. If there were no injustice there would be no poverty.\n\nWith love in Christ.
584603
Because not everyone wants the same thing.  Many people want no war or poverty, but not as much as they want other things: like power or prestige or the world to be the way that they'd like it.  As long as these things are more important for some people, we will unfortunately be stuck with chaos.
150995
We learn about History so we can know what happened and not repeat the past.\n\nUnfortunately so many are so ignorant of the past that it gets repeated.
553447
I think poor communities get better educational opportunities than many recognize or are willing to acknowledge. The problem, I think, is that most in those communities don't want to do the work that is involved in getting a good education. It is easier to fail and blame it on outside forces, than to admit you need to work harder to succeed. Until those in the poor communities realize that the power to succeed is within themselves, poor communities will continue to be poor with succeeding generations.
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People's personal blights, ie poverty or education, or not the responsibility of goverment. It is that person's choice where they are in life. In modern american society it seems that everyone wants to blame someone for the way they ended up, or make an excuse for why someone else is doing better than them. \n\nIt is a fact that some people will do nothing more than what is ABSOLUTELY nessacary for survival on that particular day. Some people will do more, and some will do everything they can to get better off than others. \n\nTo directly answer the poverty % quest... It all comes down to what the person doing the survey wants the number to be. A person living in per-say Montana with a small farm grwing there own food not really having a need for money is in poverty. But if you ask them they may say they are doing fine as all of their needs are met. A multi-millionaire that has no job (doesn't need it duh) and has no investment income (poor economic move) is considered in poverty by IRS standards. So it all comes down to what poverty number do you want to have?\n\nOn a side note, I fix up houses as a business. With the way the tax code is structured I can write off almost all of my income to business expenses. IRS paper work I made $9300 last year for a family of 3 (sole income earner). My actually net from the business for the year was $102,000+(not rubbing it in). I have been contacted multi times for Gov't assistance because we are POOR. LOL